Altered interhemispheric and temporal lobe white matter microstructural organization in severe chronic schizophrenia

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 944-954

  Holleran, Laurena ^a   Ahmed, Mohamed ^a   Anderson Schmidt, Heike ^a,b   McFarland, John ^a   Emsell, Louise ^a,c   Leemans, Alexander ^d   Scanlon, Cathy ^a   Dockery, Peter ^a   McCarthy, Peter ^a   Barker, Gareth J ^e   McDonald, Colm ^a   Cannon, Dara M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

chronic schizophrenia; clozapine; diffusion weighted MRI; TBSS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84894106267     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.294     Document Type: Article

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