Intact hippocampal gray matter in schizophrenia as revealed by automatized image analysis postmortem

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 210, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 513-517

  Hurlemann, René ^a   Tepest, Ralf ^a   Maier, Wolfgang ^a   Falkai, Peter ^b   Vogeley, Kai ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Morphometry; Postmortem; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AUTOANALYSIS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 28644444015     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-005-0035-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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