Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 468-471 , November 2005

Relationship of the Wender Utah Rating Scale to objective measures of attention

  • R. Scott Mackin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0984, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 415 476 7067; fax: +1 415 502 6364.
    • ,
  • Michael David Horner

      Affiliations

    • Mental Health Service, Ralph H. Johnson Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA

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PII: S0010-440X(05)00030-1

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2005.03.004

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 468-471 , November 2005

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