A Prospective Study of Childhood Neurocognitive Functioning in Schizophrenic Patients and Their Siblings

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Tara A. Niendam · University of California, Los Angeles

Carrie E. Bearden

Isabelle M. Rosso

Laura E. Gómez

Trevor Hadley

Keith H. Nuechterlein

Tyrone D. Cannon · University of California, Los Angeles

Abstract

Children who later developed schizophrenia and their siblings showed similar patterns of deficits involving spatial reasoning, verbal knowledge, perceptual-motor speed, and speeded processes of working memory. However, the probands exhibited more severe deficits in perceptual-motor speed and speeded processes of working memory than their unaffected siblings.

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Schizophrenia research and treatment Cognitive Functions and Memory Neuroscience and Music Perception

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Published in: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 160, Issue 11, pp. 2060-2062

DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.160.11.2060

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