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From: Relationships among neurocognition, symptoms and functioning in patients with schizophrenia: a path-analytic approach for associations at baseline and following 24 weeks of antipsychotic drug therapy

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In constructing path models, our fundamental assumption was that cognitive impairment precedes psychiatric symptoms and both precede functional impairment; therefore, cognitive status at baseline and changes in cognition may affect functioning either directly or indirectly via psychiatric symptoms.

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BMC Psychiatry

ISSN: 1471-244X

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