Cortical thickness in youth with major depressive disorder

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Reynolds, Stephanie ^a   Carrey, Normand ^b   Jaworska, Natalia ^a   Langevin, Lisa M ^a   Yang, Xiao Ru ^a   MacMaster, Frank P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Cortical thickness; Depression; Magnetic resonance imaging; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; PATHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899157528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-14-83     Document Type: Article

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