DTI tractography and white matter fiber tract characteristics in euthymic bipolar I patients and healthy control subjects

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 129-139

  Torgerson, Carinna M ^a   Irimia, Andrei ^a   Leow, Alex D ^b   Bartzokis, George ^a   Moody, Teena D ^a   Jennings, Robin G ^c   Alger, Jeffry R ^a   van Horn, John Darrell ^a   Altshuler, Lori L ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder (BD); Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Fiber density; Tract length; Tractography; White matter (WM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84876939302     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-012-9202-3     Document Type: Article

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