Test-retest reliability of two attention tests in schizophrenia

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 405-411

  Lee, Posen ^a   Li, Ping Chia ^a   Liu, Chin Hsuan ^b   Hsieh, Ching Lin ^c  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAI SUAN PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Attention; Digit vigilance test; Disability evaluation; Reproducibility of results; Schizophrenia; Symbol digit modalities test

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051977652     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acr038     Document Type: Article

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