Schizophrenia Research
Volume 76, Issue 2 , Pages 293-299 , 15 July 2005

Attentional and neurocognitive characteristics of high-risk offspring of parents with schizophrenia compared with DSM-IV attention deficit hyperactivity disorder children

  • Özgür Öner

      Affiliations

    • Advanced Research Fellow, Fogarty/NIH International Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (MHDD) Program, Children's Hospital Boston, USA and Ankara University School of Medicine, Child Psychiatry Department, Ankara, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: Gelincik Sok, 11/10, A.Ayranci, Ankara, Turkey. Tel.: +90 312 426 09 75.
    • ,
  • Kerim Munir

      Affiliations

    • Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Division of General Pediatrics and Department of Psychiatry, Boston, USA

Received 23 November 2004 ,Revised 12 January 2005 ,Accepted 17 January 2005.

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PII: S0920-9964(05)00044-7

doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2005.01.005

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 76, Issue 2 , Pages 293-299 , 15 July 2005

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