What matters in measuring methamphetamine-related cognitive impairments: Abnormality detection versus 'everyday import'?

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1081-1082

  Payer, Doris E ^a,b   Dean, Andy C ^c   Boileau, Isabelle ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHAMPHETAMINE;

BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

AMPHETAMINE-RELATED DISORDERS; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; METHAMPHETAMINE;

EID: 84858330490     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.309     Document Type: Note

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