Neuroimaging communality between schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder: A putative basis for schizo-obsessive disorder?

World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 129-134

  Gross Isseroff, Ruth ^a   Hermesh, Haggai ^b   Zohar, Joseph ^b   Weizman, Abraham ^b  

^a GEHA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

caudate nucleus; cingulate gyrus; mediodorsal nucleus; obsessive compulsive disorder; orbitofrontal cortex; schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NOMENCLATURE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS;

BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TERMINOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0642336176     PISSN: 15622975     EISSN: 18141412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15622970310029907     Document Type: Article

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