The British Journal of Psychiatry (2008) 193: 354-356. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.108.049387
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EDITORIALS

Digit symbol coding and general cognitive ability in schizophrenia: worth another look?

Dwight Dickinson, PhD

University of Maryland School of Medicine, VISN 5 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Email: Dwight.Dickinson{at}va.gov

Declaration of interest

None.

Dwight Dickinson (pictured) is Associate Professor of Psychiatry with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and VISN 5 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center.

For decades, schizophrenia researchers have sought to map specific aspects of cognitive performance onto specific neurobiological systems in hopes of dividing broad cognition and neurobiology into more tractable components. Recent findings from studies using neuropsychological test batteries, in combination with emerging neurobiological evidence, argue for a complementary focus on more generalised cognitive and biological dimensions.


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