Smaller frontal gray matter volume in postmortem schizophrenic brains

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 159, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1983-1991

  Selemon, Lynn D ^a   Kleinman, Joel E ^a   Herman, Mary M ^a   Goldman Rakic, Patricia S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEREOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0036894419     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.159.12.1983     Document Type: Article

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