Mesolimbic activity associated with psychosis in schizophrenia: Symptom-specific PET studies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 877, Issue , 1999, Pages 562-574

  Epstein, Jane ^a   Stern, Emily ^a   Silbersweig, David ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DELUSION; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PARANOIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0032811290     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb09289.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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