A quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study of cerebral and cerebellar gray matter volume in primary unipolar major depression: Relationship to treatment response and clinical severity

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 79-84

  Pillay, Srinivasan S ^a,c   Yurgelun Todd, Deborah A ^a,c   Bonello, Christina M ^a   Lafer, Beny ^b,c   Fava, Maurizio ^b,c   Renshaw, Perry F ^a,c  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellar volume; Cerebral volume; Depression; Fluoxetine response; Gray matter; Morphometry

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; BRAIN; CEPHALOMETRY; CEREBELLUM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; REFERENCE VALUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030910179     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(96)00335-6     Document Type: Article

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