Postmortem assessment of thalamic nuclear volumes in subjects with schizophrenia

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-65

  Byne, William ^a   Buchsbaum, Monte S ^b   Mattiace, Linda A ^b   Hazlett, Erin A ^b   Kemether, Eileen ^b   Elhakem, Sharif L ^b   Purohit, Dushyant P ^b   Haroutunian, Vahram ^b   Jones, Liesl ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN REGION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEREOLOGY; THALAMUS; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; AGED; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; MALE; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; PULVINAR; REFERENCE VALUES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0036370612     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.159.1.59     Document Type: Article

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