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A specific deficit in context processing in the unaffected siblings of patients with schizophrenia.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Jan 2003
MacDonald Angus W, Pogue-Geile Michael F, Johnson Melissa K, Carter Cameron S
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BACKGROUND: Understanding the biological basis of complex, heritable illnesses such as schizophrenia is facilitated by sensitive and functionally specific measures of intermediate processes. Context processing is a theoretically motivated construct associated with executive function. Impairments in this process have been associated with dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex. In the present study, we evaluated...
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