Alogia and formal thought disorder: Differential patterns of verbal fluency task performance

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1352-1357

  Docherty, Anna R ^a   Berenbaum, Howard ^b   Kerns, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Alogia; Category; Formal thought disorder; Language; Letter; Negative symptoms; Retrieval; Schizophrenia; Semantic memory; Speech; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DIFFERENTIAL DISPLAY; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; THOUGHT DISORDER;

EID: 80053111565     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: 18791379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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