Psychiatry Research
Volume 120, Issue 2 , Pages 155-164 , 30 September 2003

A brief smell identification test discriminates between deficit and non-deficit schizophrenia

  • Nora Goudsmit

      Affiliations

    • New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Departments of Psychiatry and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-212-543-5349; fax: +1-212-543-6176
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  • Eliza Coleman

      Affiliations

    • New York University Department of Psychology, New York, NY, USA
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  • Regine Anna Seckinger

      Affiliations

    • New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Departments of Psychiatry and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
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  • Rachel Wolitzky

      Affiliations

    • New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Departments of Psychiatry and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
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  • Arielle D. Stanford

      Affiliations

    • New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Departments of Psychiatry and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
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  • Cheryl Corcoran

      Affiliations

    • New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Departments of Psychiatry and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
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  • Raymond R. Goetz

      Affiliations

    • New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Departments of Psychiatry and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
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  • Dolores Malaspina

      Affiliations

    • New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Departments of Psychiatry and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA

Received 31 January 2003 ,Revised 18 June 2003 ,Accepted 22 July 2003.

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PII: S0165-1781(03)00194-X

doi: 10.1016/S0165-1781(03)00194-X

Psychiatry Research
Volume 120, Issue 2 , Pages 155-164 , 30 September 2003

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