Frontal and anterior cingulate activation during overt verbal fluency in patients with first episode psychosis Ativação frontal e do cíngulo anterior durante tarefa de fluência verbal em pacientes em primeiro episódio psicótico

OBJECTIVE: Functional neuroimaging studies using phonological verbal fluency tasks allow the assessment of neural circuits relevant to the neuropsychology of psychosis. There is evidence that the prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate gyrus present different activation patterns in subjects with ch...

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Main Authors: Maristela Schaufelberger, Maurien C T Senhorini, Maria Angela Barreiros, Edson Amaro Jr, Paulo R Menezes, Marcia Scazufca, Claudio C Castro, Adriana M Ayres, Robin M Murray, Philip K McGuire, Geraldo F Busatto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2005-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462005000300013