Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex and Anterior Cingulate Cortex White Matter Alterations in Late-Life Depression

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1356-1363

  Bae, Jae Nam ^a,b   MacFall, James R ^b   Krishnan, K Ranga R ^b   Payne, Martha E ^b   Steffens, David C ^b   Taylor, Warren D ^b  

^a Inha University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Age of onset; depression; frontal lobe; geriatrics; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; COVARIANCE; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GENDER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROIMAGING; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33751512519     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.03.052     Document Type: Article

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