Enlargement of thalamic nuclei in tourette syndrome

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 955-964

  Miller, Ann M ^a   Bansal, Ravi ^a   Hao, Xuejun ^a   Sanchez Pena, Juan Pablo ^a   Sobel, Loren J ^b   Liu, Jun ^a   Xu, Dongrong ^a   Zhu, Hongtu ^c   Mallar Chakravarty, M ^d   Durkin, Kathleen ^a   Ivanov, Iliyan ^e   Plessen, Kerstin J ^a,f   Kellendonk, Christoph B ^a   Peterson, Bradley S ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TIC;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; THALAMIC NUCLEI; THALAMUS; TOURETTE SYNDROME;

EID: 77956363100     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.102     Document Type: Article

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