Verbal memory and verbal fluency in adolescents with schizophrenia spectrum disorders
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Processing speed mediates the relationship between verbal memory, verbal fluency, and functional outcome in chronic schizophrenia.
Verbal fluency and verbal memory have been reported to be diminished in patients with schizophrenia. These deficits could partially predict functional disability in this pathology. However, processing speed often mediates the relationship among cognitive processes in the disorder. Our goal was to analyse the influence of processing speed as mediator of the relation between verbal fluency-verbal...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1323-1316,1440-1819
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2008.01864.x