Associations of cortical thickness and cognition in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls

Schizophrenia Bulletin

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1050-1062

  Ehrlich, Stefan ^a,b   Brauns, Stefan ^a   Yendiki, Anastasia ^a   Ho, Beng Choon ^c   Calhoun, Vince ^d,e   Charles Schulz, S ^f,g   Gollub, Randy L ^a   Sponheim, Scott R ^f,h  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

^e University of New Mexico   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive dysfunction; gray matter thickness; structural MRI; working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84866662767     PISSN: 05867614     EISSN: 17451701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbr018     Document Type: Article

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