Not on speaking terms: hallucinations and structural network disconnectivity in schizophrenia

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 407-418

  Ćurčić Blake, Branislava ^a   Nanetti, Luca ^a   van der Meer, Lisette ^a,b   Cerliani, Leonardo ^a,c   Renken, Remco ^a   Pijnenborg, Gerdina H M ^a,b,d   Aleman, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Lentis ^*  (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anatomical connectivity; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Fronto temporal connectivity; Hallucinations; Language network; Thalamo cortical connectivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPLICATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886744575     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0663-y     Document Type: Article

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