Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 162, Issue 1 , Pages 11-25 , 15 January 2008

Brain response abnormalities during verbal learning among patients with schizophrenia

  • Lisa T. Eyler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
    • Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Mail Code 151B, 3350 La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego, CA 92161, United States. Tel.: +1 858 552 8585x7666; fax: +1 858 642 1458.
    • ,
  • Dilip V. Jeste

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
    • Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States
    • ,
  • Gregory G. Brown

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
    • Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States

Received 6 July 2006 ,Revised 3 March 2007 ,Accepted 21 March 2007.

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☆ Early results of this study were presented at the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2003 Annual Meeting and the Society for Neuroscience 2004 Annual Meeting.

PII: S0925-4927(07)00066-2

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.03.009

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 162, Issue 1 , Pages 11-25 , 15 January 2008

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