Larger amygdala volumes in first depressive episode as compared to recurrent major depression and healthy control subjects

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 338-344

  Frodl, Thomas ^a   Meisenzahl, Eva Maria ^a   Zetzsche, Thomas ^a   Born, Christine ^b   Jäger, Markus ^a   Groll, Constanze ^a   Bottlender, Ronald ^a   Leinsinger, Gerda ^b   Möller, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; First episode depression; Major depression; Neuroimaging; Structural MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGING; AMYGDALA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0037441748     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(02)01474-9     Document Type: Article

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