Schizophrenia Research
Volume 120, Issue 1 , Pages 167-176 , July 2010

The interaction of working memory and emotion in persons clinically at risk for psychosis: An fMRI pilot study

  • Katharina Pauly

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
    • Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance-Translational Brain Medicine (JARA-BRAIN), Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany. Tel.: +49 241 8080279; fax: +49 8082401.
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  • Nina Y. Seiferth

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
    • Present address: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
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  • Thilo Kellermann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
    • Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance-Translational Brain Medicine (JARA-BRAIN), Germany
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  • Stephan Ruhrmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50924 Köln, Germany
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  • Bianca Daumann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50924 Köln, Germany
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  • Volker Backes

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
    • Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance-Translational Brain Medicine (JARA-BRAIN), Germany
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  • Joachim Klosterkötter

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50924 Köln, Germany
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  • N. Jon Shah

      Affiliations

    • Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance-Translational Brain Medicine (JARA-BRAIN), Germany
    • Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine-4, Research Center Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
    • Brain Imaging Center West (BICW), Research Center Jülich, Germany
    • Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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  • Frank Schneider

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
    • Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance-Translational Brain Medicine (JARA-BRAIN), Germany
    • Brain Imaging Center West (BICW), Research Center Jülich, Germany
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  • Tilo T. Kircher

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
    • Brain Imaging Center West (BICW), Research Center Jülich, Germany
    • Present address: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmann-Straße 8, 35039 Marburg, Germany.
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  • Ute Habel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
    • Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance-Translational Brain Medicine (JARA-BRAIN), Germany

Received 21 August 2009 ,Revised 23 November 2009 ,Accepted 4 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2009.12.008

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 120, Issue 1 , Pages 167-176 , July 2010

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