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Attention and executive function in people with schizophrenia: Relationship with social skills and quality of life
Tyson, P. J.; Laws, K.R.; Flowers, K.A.; Mortimer, A.M.; Schulz, J. (2008)Executive function and attention are highly complex cognitive constructs that typically reveal evidence of impairment in people with schizophrenia. Studies in this area have traditionally utilised abstract tests of cognitive ... -
Awareness of everyday executive difficulties precede overt executive dysfunction in schizotypal subjects
Laws, K.R.; Patel, D.D.; Tyson, P. J. (2008)Much evidence indicates that schizophrenic patients exhibit deficits on tests of executive functioning. It is therefore hypo- 10 thesized that individuals with high schizotypal personality traits that may have a predisposition ... -
Cognitive function and social abilities in patients with schizophrenia: relationship with atypical antipsychotics
Tyson, P. J.; Laws, K.R.; Flowers, K.A.; Tyson, A. G.; Mortimer, A.M. (2006)Although atypical antipsychotics have been associated with improvements in cognitive function in schizophrenia, the neurochemical basis for such effects is not well understood. Candidate neurotransmitter systems primarily ... -
A Longitudinal Analysis of Memory in patients with Schizophrenia
Tyson, P. J.; Laws, K.R.; Roberts, K.H.; Mortimer, A.M. (2005)Memory deficits are widely reported in patients with schizophrenia, but uncertainties remain about the extent and the longitudinal course of these deficits. Twenty-eight patients with a DSM-IV diagnosis of schizophrenia ... -
Stability of set-shifting and planning abilities in patients with schizophrenia
Tyson, P. J.; Laws, K.R.; Roberts, K.H.; Mortimer, A.M. (2004)Patients with schizophrenia have deficits in executive function that involve attentional set-shifting and planning ability. It is unclear, however, whether such deficits are stable during the course of the illness or if ...