Reply to: Effects of lithium on magnetic resonance imaging signal might not preclude increases in brain volume after chronic lithium treatment

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Ferrier, Nicol I ^a   Blamire, Andrew M ^a   Cousins, David A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; LITHIUM CARBONATE;

BRAIN SIZE; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LONG TERM CARE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; MALE; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN; HUMANS; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED;

EID: 84888031207     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.07.023     Document Type: Letter

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