Structural brain abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia and their healthy siblings

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 416-421

  Staal, Wouter G ^a   Hulshoff, Hilleke E ^b   Schnack, Hugo G ^b   Hoogendoorn, Mechteld L C ^b   Jellema, Korné ^b   Kahn, René S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIBLING; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0342316524     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.157.3.416     Document Type: Article

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