Psychiatry Research
Volume 170, Issue 2 , Pages 108-113 , 30 December 2009

Emotion regulation strategies in patients with schizophrenia

  • Lisette van der Meer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 2, P.O. Box 196, 9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 50 3638999; fax: +31 50 3638875.
    • ,
  • Mascha van't Wout

      Affiliations

    • Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
    • ,
  • André Aleman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
    • Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Received 29 January 2009 ,Revised 22 June 2009 ,Accepted 15 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2009.07.010

Psychiatry Research
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