Associations of white matter integrity and cortical thickness in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls

Schizophrenia Bulletin

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 665-674

  Ehrlich, Stefan ^a,b,c   Geisler, Daniel ^c   Yendiki, Anastasia ^a   Panneck, Patricia ^a   Roessner, Veit ^c   Calhoun, Vince D ^d,e   Magnotta, Vincent A ^f   Gollub, Randy L ^a,b   White, Tonya ^g,h  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^d MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

^e University of New Mexico   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cortical thickness; DTI; fractional anisotropy; schizophrenia; structural MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL GYRUS; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE CONTROL STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898936944     PISSN: 05867614     EISSN: 17451701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbt056     Document Type: Article

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