Prenatal exposure to famine and brain morphology in schizophrenia

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 157, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1170-1172

  Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E ^a   Hoek, Hans W ^b   Susser, Ezra ^b   Brown, Alan S ^b   Dingemans, Alexandra ^b   Schnack, Hugo G ^b   Van Haren, Neeltje E M ^b   Ramos, Lino Moreira Pereira ^b   Gispen De Wied, Christine C ^b   Kahn, René S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HUNGER; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STARVATION;

EID: 0033934865     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.157.7.1170     Document Type: Article

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