Size abnormalities of the superior parietal cortices are related to dissociation in borderline personality disorder

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-149

  Irle, Eva ^a   Lange, Claudia ^a   Weniger, Godehard ^a   Sachsse, Ulrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Psychiatric State Hospital of Lower Saxony   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inferior parietal cortex asymmetry; Postcentral gyrus; Precuneus; Psychotic symptoms; Structural magnetic resonance imaging (3D MRI); Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PARIETAL LOBE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 35348944966     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

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