Brain Morphology and Schizophrenia: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Limbic, Prefrontal Cortex, and Caudate Structures

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 1992, Pages 921-926

  Breier, Alan ^a   Buchanan, Robert W ^a   Elkashef, Ahmed ^b   Munson, Robert C ^a   Kirkpatrick, Brian ^a   Gellad, Fouad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL STATUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; AMYGDALA; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LATERALITY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026488594     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1992.01820120009003     Document Type: Article

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