Reduced fractional anisotropy of corpus callosum in first-contact, antipsychotic drug-naive patients with schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 108, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 41-48

  Gasparotti, Roberto ^a,b   Valsecchi, Paolo ^a,c   Carletti, Francesco ^a   Galluzzo, Alessandro ^a,c   Liserre, Roberto ^a   Cesana, Bruno ^a   Sacchetti, Emilio ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c Brescia Spedali Civili ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Drug na ve schizophrenia patients; First contact schizophrenia patients; Genu fractional anisotropy; Splenium fractional anisotropy

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60249087119     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2008.11.015     Document Type: Article

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