Basal Ganglia and Limbic System Pathology in Schizophrenia: A Morphometric Study of Brain Volume and Shrinkage

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1985, Pages 784-791

  Bogerts, Bernhardt ^a   Meertz, Elisabeth ^a   Schönfeldt Bausch, Regina ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALA; ATROPHY; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORGAN WEIGHT; PUTAMEN; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0021971224     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1985.01790310046006     Document Type: Article

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