Neurological abnormalities and cognitive ability in first-episode psychosis
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Neurological abnormalities and cognitive ability in first-episode psychosis.
BACKGROUND It remains unclear if the excess of neurological soft signs, or of certain types of neurological soft signs, is common to all psychoses, and whether this excess is simply an epiphenomenon of the lower general cognitive ability present in psychosis. AIMS To investigate whether an excess of neurological soft signs is independent of diagnosis (schizophrenia v. affective psychosis) and...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.107.045450