This paper is intended to lend support to the 2005 findings of McCarthy, Kraseski, Schvartz, Mercado, Daisy, Tobing, and Ryan in relation to the WISC-III performance of children and adolescents with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders. Relevant evidence from the literature and recent studies conducted by our group at the Institute of Psychiatry, UK, are discussed.
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