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Verbal and visual-spatial memory impairment in youth at familial risk for schizophrenia or affective psychosis: a pilot study.
Schizophrenia research - 1 Mar 2013
Scala Silvia, Pousada Andrea, Stone William S, Thermenos Heidi W, Manschreck Theo C, Tsuang Ming T, Faraone Stephen V, Seidman Larry J
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BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia and affective psychoses share several common biological origins, particularly genetic susceptibility. Kraepelin posited that differing clinical expressions in these disorders reflect different etiopathologies. We tested a neuropsychological component of this hypothesis by evaluating verbal memory and visual memory performance in nonpsychotic youth at familial risk for psychosis, taking...
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