Elucidating the black box from stress to paranoia

Schizophrenia Bulletin

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1311-1317

  Moritz, Steffen ^a   Burnette, Pia ^a   Sperber, Sabine ^a   Köther, Ulf ^a   Hagemann Goebel, Marion ^a   Hartmann, Maike ^b   Lincoln, Tania M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cognitive biases; jumping to conclusions; noise; schizophrenia; stress

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STRESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARANOIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NOISE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARANOID DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80054872808     PISSN: 05867614     EISSN: 17451701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbq055     Document Type: Article

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