Neuropsychological functioning in first-episode schizophrenia
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Neuropsychological functioning in first-episode schizophrenia.
BACKGROUND Identifying neurocognitive subtypes in schizophrenia may help establish neurobiologically meaningful subtypes of the disorder, but is frequently confounded by differences in intellectual function between individuals with schizophrenia and controls. AIMS To examine neuropsychological performance in individuals with epidemiologically based, first-onset schizophrenia and intellectuall...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.108.055590