Reduced ventral anterior cingulate and amygdala volumes in medication-naïve females with major depressive disorder: A voxel-based morphometric magnetic resonance imaging study

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-86

  Tang, Yanqing ^a,b   Wang, Fei ^c,d,e   Xie, Guangrong ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Li, Lehua ^a   Su, Linyan ^a   Liu, Ying ^b   Hu, Xian ^b   He, Zhong ^a   Blumberg, Hilary P ^d,e  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY SIXTH HOSPITAL   (China)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Major depressive disorder; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34548475109     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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