Anatomical MRI study of subgenual prefrontal cortex in bipolar and unipolar subjects

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 792-799

  Brambilla, Paolo ^a,b,c   Nicoletti, Mark A ^a   Harenski, Keith ^a   Sassi, Roberto B ^a,f   Mallinger, Alan G ^a,d   Frank, Ellen ^a,d   Kupfer, David J ^a,e   Keshavan, Matcheri S ^a   Soares, Jair C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Affective disorders; Bipolar disorder; Depression; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mood disorders; Neuroimaging; Unipolar disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036849449     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-133X(02)00352-4     Document Type: Article

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