Distinguishing between major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder in children by measuring regional cortical thickness

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 527-533

  Fallucca, Erin ^a,b   MacMaster, Frank P ^a,c   Haddad, Joseph ^a   Easter, Phillip ^a   Dick, Rachel ^a   May, Geoffrey ^a   Stanley, Jeffrey A ^a   Rix, Carrie ^a   Rosenberg, David R ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEUS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARIETAL GYRUS; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 79955611355     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.36     Document Type: Article

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