Increased cerebellar vermis white-matter volume in men with schizophrenia

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 645-651

  Lee, Kwang Hyuk ^a   Farrow, Tom F D ^a   Parks, Randolph W ^a   Newton, Lisa D ^a   Mir, Nusrat U ^a   Egleston, Paul N ^a   Brown, Wendy H ^a   Wilkinson, Iain D ^a   Woodruff, Peter W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; MRI; Schizophrenia; VBM; Verbal fluency; Vermis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HOPKIN MEMORY TEST; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WHITE MATTER; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ADULT; CEREBELLUM; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REFERENCE VALUES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33947642501     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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