Sex differences of gray matter morphology in cortico-limbic-striatal neural system in major depressive disorder

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 733-739

  Kong, Lingtao ^a   Chen, Kaiyuan ^a   Womer, Fay ^b   Jiang, Wenyan ^a   Luo, Xingguang ^c   Driesen, Naomi ^c   Liu, Jie ^c   Blumberg, Hilary ^c   Tang, Yanqing ^a   Xu, Ke ^a   Wang, Fei ^a,c  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Caudate; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging; Major depressive disorder; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84875902997     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: 18791379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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