Association between psychotic symptoms and cortical thickness reduction across the schizophrenia spectrum

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-70

  Oertel Knöchel, Viola ^a   Knöchel, Christian ^a   Rotarska Jagiela, Anna ^a   Reinke, Britta ^a   Prvulovic, David ^a   Haenschel, Corinna ^b   Hampel, Harald ^a   Linden, David E J ^c,d  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cortical thickness; endophenotype; first degree relatives; hallucinations; schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOSIS; RELATIVE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; THICKNESS;

ADULT; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84870788861     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr380     Document Type: Article

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