Association of formal thought disorder in schizophrenia with structural brain abnormalities in language-related cortical regions

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 146, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 308-313

  Sans Sansa, B ^a,b   McKenna, P J ^a,c   Canales Rodriguez E J ^a,c   Ortiz Gil, J ^a,b,c   Lopez Araquistain L ^b   Sarro S ^a,c   Duenas R M ^d   Blanch, J ^d   Salvador, R ^a,c   Pomarol Clotet, E ^a,c  

^a FIDMAG GERMANES HOSPITALÀRIES RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Spain)

^b Benito Menni CASM ^*  (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

^d Fundacio Hospital Sant Joan de Déu   (Spain)

Author keywords

Formal thought disorder; MRI; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenic symptoms; Structural brain imaging; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISORIENTATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THOUGHT DISORDER; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WERNICKE AREA;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THINKING;

EID: 84875952309     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: 15732509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2013.02.032     Document Type: Article

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