A Neuregulin-1 schizophrenia susceptibility variant causes perihippocampal fiber tract anomalies in healthy young subjects

Brain and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 215-226

  Nickl Jockschat, Thomas ^a,b   Stöcker, Tony ^b,c   Krug, Axel ^d   Markov, Valentin ^a   Huang, Ruiwang ^b,c   Schneider, Frank ^a,b   Habel, Ute ^a,b   Eickhoff, Simon B ^c,e   Zerres, Klaus ^a   Nöthen, Markus M ^f   Treutlein, Jens ^g   Rietschel, Marcella ^g   Shah, Nadim Jon ^b,c,h   Kircher, Tilo ^d  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Translational Brain Medicine   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^g CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomic connectivity; Brain; DTI; Gene; Hippocampus; MRI; Neuregulin 1

Indexed keywords

NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPAL MOSSY FIBER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; CEREBELLUM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUREGULIN-1; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896815202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21623279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.203     Document Type: Article

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