Manic episodes are associated with grey matter volume reduction - a voxel-based morphometry brain analysis

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 507-515

  Ekman, C J ^a   Lind, J ^b   Ryden E ^a   Ingvar, M ^a   Landen M ^a,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Disease progression; Magnetic resonance imaging; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYELIN SHEATH; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78149403344     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: 16000447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2010.01586.x     Document Type: Article

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