Amygdala enlargement in dysthymia - A volumetric study of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1614-1623

  Tebartz Van Elst, Ludger ^a,c   Woermann, Friedrich G ^a   Lemieux, Louis ^a   Trimble, Michael R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Epilepsy Research Group   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Depression; Dysthymia; MRI; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSTHYMIA; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DYSTHYMIC DISORDER; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 0033432873     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(99)00212-7     Document Type: Article

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