Frontal white matter microstructure and treatment response of late-life depression: A preliminary study

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 159, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1929-1932

  Alexopoulos, George S ^a   Kiosses, Dimitris N ^a   Choi, Steven J ^a   Murphy, Christopher F ^a   Lim, Kelvin O ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FRONTAL LOBE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UNITED STATES; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ANISOTROPY; CITALOPRAM; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036842532     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.159.11.1929     Document Type: Article

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