Cerebral white matter abnormalities and their associations with negative but not positive symptoms of schizophrenia

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 222, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 52-59

  Asami, Takeshi ^a,b   Hyuk Lee, Sang ^a,b   Bouix, Sylvain ^b   Rathi, Yogesh ^b   Whitford, Thomas J ^b,c   Niznikiewicz, Margaret ^a   Nestor, Paul ^a   McCarley, Robert W ^a   Shenton, Martha E ^a,b   Kubicki, Marek ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Fractional anisotropy (FA); Frontal lobe; Negative symptoms; Schizophrenia; Tract Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS)

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; POSITIVE SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUBCORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER LESION;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING (DTI); FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY (FA); FRONTAL LOBE; NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRACT-BASED SPATIAL STATISTICS (TBSS);

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908539746     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2014.02.007     Document Type: Article

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