Pathways to similar executive impairment: Comparison of schizophrenia patients and healthy aging individuals

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 694-701

  Silver, Henry ^a,b   Bilker, Warren B ^c  

^a SHA'AR MENASHE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive function; Frontal function; Geriatric

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION INHIBITION AND WORKING MEMORY TEST; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE IMPAIRMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENN CONDITIONAL EXCLUSION TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84888301709     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.07.031     Document Type: Article

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