Cognitive battery
psychotic disorders, verbal associative learning task, temporal lobe dysfunction
The Information and Picture Completion subtests of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Third Edition (WAIS-III) were administered at baseline to estimate current IQ. The repeated cognitive battery included measures of cognitive domains known to be most affected in psychotic disorders [The verbal Paired-Associate Learning task used in the current study is a variant of a novel verbal associative learning task and was chosen because it has previously shown to be sensitive to medial temporal lobe dysfunction and to load minimally on attention and working memory [