Thalamo-frontal white matter alterations in chronic schizophrenia: A quantitative diffusion tractography study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3812-3825

  Oh, Jungsu S ^a,b   Kubicki, Marek ^a,c   Rosenberger, Gudrun ^a,d   Bouix, Sylvain ^a   Levitt, James J ^a,c   McCarley, Robert W ^c   Westin, Carl Fredrik ^a   Shenton, Martha E ^a,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brodmann area (BA); Chronic schizophrenia; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Internal capsule (IC); Parameterization

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION TRACTOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THALAMUS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350333891     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20809     Document Type: Article

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