Fewer pigmented locus coeruleus neurons in suicide victims: Preliminary results

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 112-120

  Arango, Victoria ^a,b   Underwood, Mark D ^a   Mann, J John ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; Brain; Human; Noradrenaline; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE;

EID: 0030021391     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(95)00107-7     Document Type: Article

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