The problem of spurious correlations between pairs of brain metabolite values measured in the same voxelwith magnetic resonance spectroscopy

JAMA Psychiatry

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 338-339

  Maddock, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LETTER; METABOLITE; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NULL HYPOTHESIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84896794500     PISSN: 2168622X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.4343     Document Type: Letter

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