Thought disorder in schizophrenia: Impairment in contextual processing via integrative failures in cognition

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 568-572

  Patniyot, Nicholas S ^a  

^a St Joseph Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROBIOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STROOP TEST; THOUGHT DISORDER; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

COGNITION; HUMANS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THINKING;

EID: 80052631820     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.06.033     Document Type: Article

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