Gray matter abnormalities in patients with narcissistic personality disorder

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1363-1369

  Schulze, Lars ^a,b   Dziobek, Isabel ^a   Vater, Aline ^a,b   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a   Bajbouj, Malek ^a,b   Renneberg, Babette ^a   Heuser, Isabella ^a,b   Roepke, Stefan ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior insula; Brain imaging; Empathy; Narcissistic personality disorder; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INSULA; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NARCISSISM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT;

ANTERIOR INSULA; BRAIN IMAGING; EMPATHY; NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; VOXEL-BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DISORDERS;

EID: 84881557835     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: 18791379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2013.05.017     Document Type: Article

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