Increased Vertical Axon Numbers in Cingulate Cortex of Schizophrenics

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 1987, Pages 1017-1021

  Benes, Francine M ^a,b   Majocha, Ronald ^a,b   Bird, Edward D ^a,b   Marotta, Charles A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; NERVE FIBER; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

AXONS; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STAINING AND LABELING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023472027     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1987.01800230097015     Document Type: Article

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