Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 181, Issue 1 , Pages 24-29 , 30 January 2010

Color Stroop and negative priming in schizophrenia: An fMRI study

  • Lida Ungar

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1249 Boylston Street-3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02215, United States
    • ,
  • Paul G. Nestor

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Boston VA Healthcare System-Brockton Division, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, MA 02301, United States
    • University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125-3393, United States
    • ,
  • Margaret A. Niznikiewicz

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Boston VA Healthcare System-Brockton Division, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, MA 02301, United States
    • ,
  • Cynthia G. Wible

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Boston VA Healthcare System-Brockton Division, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, MA 02301, United States
    • ,
  • Marek Kubicki

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1249 Boylston Street-3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02215, United States
    • Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Boston VA Healthcare System-Brockton Division, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Brockton, MA 02301, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1249 Boylston Street-3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02215, United States. Tel.: +1 617 525 6117; fax: +1 617 525 6150.

Received 17 January 2009 ,Revised 14 May 2009 ,Accepted 7 July 2009.

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PII: S0925-4927(09)00170-X

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.07.005

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 181, Issue 1 , Pages 24-29 , 30 January 2010

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