Set shifting and reversal learning in borderline personality disorder

Personality and Mental Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-13

  Barker, Victoria ^a   Pope, Merrick ^b   Smith, Sharon ^b   Brown, Verity ^c   Hall, Jeremy ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL EDINBURGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REVERSAL LEARNING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894237015     PISSN: 19328621     EISSN: 1932863X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmh.1235     Document Type: Article

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