The nature and extent of working memory dysfunction in schizophrenia

PsyCh Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 175-182

  Cao, Xiao yan ^a,b   Li, Zhi ^a   Metcalfe, Hugo M ^a   Yang, Tian xiao ^a   Tan, Shu ping ^c   Wang, Ya ^a   Hong, Xiao hong ^d   Li, Zhan jiang ^e   Yu, Xin ^f   Cheung, Eric F C ^g   Neumann, David L ^h,i   Shum, David H K ^h   Chan, Raymond C K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c BEIJING HUILONGGUAN HOSPITAL   (China)

^d SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY SIXTH HOSPITAL   (China)

^g CASTLE PEAK HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^h GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

schizophrenia; spatial; verbal; working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956898579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20460260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pchj.30     Document Type: Article

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