Postmortem Evidence of Structural Brain Changes in Schizophrenia: Differences in Brain Weight, Temporal Horn Area, and Parahippocampal Gyrus Compared With Affective Disorder

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 36-42

  Brown, Rosemary ^a   Colter, Nigel ^b   Corsellis, J A Nicholas ^a   Crow, Timothy J ^b   Frith, Christopher D ^b   Jagoe, Roger ^b   Johnstone, Eve C ^b   Marsh, Laura ^c  

^a Runwell Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUBICULUM;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; ORGAN SIZE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0022568602     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1986.01800010038005     Document Type: Article

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