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Howard Berenbaum1, John G Kerns, Laura L Vernon
1Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States. hberenba@uiuc.edu
Abstract:
We examined the relations between verbal communication disturbances and several hypothesized etiological factors in 47 schizophrenia spectrum individuals. Both alogia and disturbed discourse coherence were associated with poor planning abilities. Alogia and discourse coherence were differentially associated with performance on tasks measuring fluency, working memory, word finding abilities, and concentration/attention.
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