Anatomical MRI study of borderline personality disorder patients

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 125-133

  Brambilla, Paolo ^a,b,c,d   Soloff, Paul H ^b   Sala, Michela ^e   Nicoletti, Mark A ^a,f   Keshavan, Matcheri S ^b   Soares, Jair C ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^f SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Basal ganglia; Brain; Frontal cortex; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neuroimaging; Personality disorder; Temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BORDERLINE STATE; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATROPHY; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUSALITY; CHILD ABUSE; COMORBIDITY; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUTAMEN; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 4143139786     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2004.04.003     Document Type: Article

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