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

  Vernon, Anthony C ^a   Hajek, Tomas ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; LITHIUM; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; LITHIUM CARBONATE;

BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN WATER; BRAIN WEIGHT; DENDRITE; DRUG EFFECT; GLIA CELL; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LETTER; LONG TERM CARE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WATER CONTENT; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; MALE; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PROCEDURES;

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

EID: 84888043631     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.12.028     Document Type: Letter

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