Pronounced Reduction of Total Neuron Number in Mediodorsal Thalamic Nucleus and Nucleus Accumbens in Schizophrenics

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 1990, Pages 1023-1028

  Pakkenberg, Bente ^a  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GLIA CELL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THALAMUS;

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALA; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0025131197     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1990.01810230039007     Document Type: Article

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