Widespread Cerebral Gray Matter Volume Deficits in Schizophrenia

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 195-205

  Zipursky, Robert B ^a,b,c   Lim, Kelvin O ^a,b   Sullivan, Edith V ^a,b   Brown, Byron W ^a   Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PARIETAL LOBE; RACIAL STOCKS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0026590077     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1992.01820030027004     Document Type: Article

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