Suicidal behavior is associated with reduced corpus callosum area

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 320-326

  Cyprien, Fabienne ^a,b   Courtet, Philippe ^a,b   Malafosse, Alain ^a,c   Maller, Jerome ^d   Meslin, Chantal ^e   Bonafé, Alain ^b   Le Bars, Emmanuelle ^b   De Champfleur, Nicolas Menjot ^b   Ritchie, Karen ^a,b,f   Artero, Sylvaine ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d Australia   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; magnetic resonance imaging; suicidal behavior

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUICIDE;

EID: 79960456262     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.02.035     Document Type: Article

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