Regional Gray Matter Volume in Monozygotic Twins Concordant and Discordant for Schizophrenia

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 956-964

  Borgwardt, Stefan J ^a,b   Picchioni, Marco M ^a   Ettinger, Ulrich ^c   Toulopoulou, Timothea ^a   Murray, Robin ^a   McGuire, Philip K ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concordant; discordant; MRI; schizophrenia; twin; voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 77951622060     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.10.026     Document Type: Article

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