A preliminary study of white matter in adolescent depression: Relationships with illness severity, anhedonia, and irritability

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Henderson, Sarah E ^a   Johnson, Amy R ^a   Vallejo, Ana I ^a   Katz, Lev ^a   Wong, Edmund ^a   Gabbay, Vilma ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Anhedonia; Depression; Diffusion tensor imaging; Irritability; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANHEDONIA; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; SAGITTAL STRATUM; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889641017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00152     Document Type: Article

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