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Attention network test (ANT) reveals gender-specific alterations of executive function in schizophrenia.
Psychiatry research - 30 Jul 2009
Urbanek Carsten, Neuhaus Andres Hao Ming, Opgen-Rhein Carolin, Strathmann Silke, Wieseke Nicol, Schaub Rainer, Hahn Eric, Dettling Michael
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The Attention Network Test (ANT) provides measures for three different components of visual attention: executive control (=conflict inhibition), orienting, and alerting. There is reasonable evidence that alterations of attention-mainly in the executive/conflict domain-are associated with susceptibility to psychiatric illness. Specific impairments may be a characteristic for a medical condition such as...
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