Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 156, Issue 1 , Pages 1-13 , 15 October 2007

Cortical activation during two verbal fluency tasks in schizophrenic patients and healthy controls as assessed by multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy

Received 1 December 2005 ,Revised 10 July 2006 ,Accepted 25 November 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2006.11.007

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 156, Issue 1 , Pages 1-13 , 15 October 2007

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