Overlapping and segregating structural brain abnormalities in twins with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 349-359

  Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E ^a   Van Baal, Caroline M ^a   Schnack, Hugo G ^a   Brans, Rachel G H ^a   Van Der Schot, Astrid C ^a   Brouwer, Rachel M ^a   Van Haren, Neeltje E M ^a   Lepage, Claude ^d   Collins, D Louis ^d   Evans, Alan C ^d   Boomsma, Dorret I ^b   Nolen, Willem ^c   Kahn, René S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTOR CORTEX; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TWIN DISCORDANCE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ATROPHY; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NETHERLANDS; NEUROIMAGING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84859448452     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.1615     Document Type: Article

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