Loss of white matter integrity in major depressive disorder: Evidence using tract-based spatial statistical analysis of diffusion tensor imaging

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2161-2171

  Korgaonkar, Mayuresh S ^a   Grieve, Stuart M ^a,b,c   Koslow, Stephen H ^b,d   Gabrieli, John D E ^e   Gordon, Evian ^b   Williams, Leanne M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Brain Resource Ltd   (Australia)

^c American Foundation for Suicide Prevention ^*  (United States)

^d American Foundation for Suicide Prevention   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; ISPOT D; Major depressive disorder; Melancholia; Nongeriatric; TBSS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MELANCHOLIA; MYELINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 81055147611     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21178     Document Type: Article

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