Insight into illness in late-life schizophrenia: A function of illness severity and premorbid intellectual function

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 217-222

  Gerretsen, Philip ^a   Mulsant, Benoit H ^a   Liu, Angela Y ^a   Granholm, Eric ^b   Menon, Mahesh ^a,c   Graff Guerrero, Ariel ^a   Pollock, Bruce G ^a   Mamo, David C ^a   Rajji, Tarek K ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Illness awareness; Insight; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTROSPECTION; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL COGNITION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

AGING; COGNITION; ILLNESS AWARENESS; INSIGHT; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; AWARENESS; COGNITION DISORDERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84884148004     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: 15732509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2013.07.025     Document Type: Article

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