Progressive structural brain abnormalities and their relationship to clinical outcome: A longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study early in schizophrenia

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 585-594

  Ho, Beng Choon ^a,b   Andreasen, Nancy C ^a,b,c   Nopoulos, Peg ^a,b   Arndt, Stephan ^a,b   Magnotta, Vincent ^a   Flaum, Michael ^a,b  

^a Mental Hlth Clin Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTROPHY; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0037977109     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.60.6.585     Document Type: Article

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