Cerebral cortical atrophy and silent brain infarcts in psychiatric patients

Psychiatria Danubina

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 49-55

  Avdibegović, Esmina ^a   Bećirović, Elvir ^a   Selimbašić, Zihnet ^a   Hasanović, Mevludin ^a   Sinanović, Osman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUZLA   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortical atrophy; Cognitive dysfunction; Mental disorders; Silent brain infarct

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME; STATISTICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 34447264078     PISSN: 03535053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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