Need for culture specific tools to assess social cognition in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 133, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 255-256

  Mehta, Urvakhsh Meherwan ^a   Thirthalli, Jagadisha ^a   Gangadhar, Bangalore N ^a   Keshavan, Matcheri S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; GAZE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LETTER; MENTAL HEALTH; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL COGNITION;

COGNITION DISORDERS; CULTURE; HUMANS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 81955162877     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: 15732509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2011.09.007     Document Type: Letter

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