Cerebral connectivity and psychotic personality traits: A diffusion tensor imaging study

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 258, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 292-299

  Volpe, Umberto ^a,c   Federspiel, Andrea ^b,c   Mucci, Armida ^a   Dierks, Thomas ^b,c   Frank, Anders ^c   Wahlund, Lars Olof ^c   Galderisi, Silvana ^a   Maj, Mario ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brain asymmetry; Brain connectivity; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Fractional anisotropy; Personality assessment; Psychosis; Psychotic personality traits; Schizophrenia spectrum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CONNECTIVITY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTIC PERSONALITY TRAIT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PERSONALITY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS;

EID: 50249091023     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-007-0796-1     Document Type: Article

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