Obesity and major depression: Body-mass index (BMI) is associated with a severe course of disease and specific neurostructural alterations

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2015, Pages 219-226

  Opel, Nils ^a   Redlich, Ronny ^a   Grotegerd, Dominik ^a   Dohm, Katharina ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a   Kugel, Harald ^a   Arolt, Volker ^a   Dannlowski, Udo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Chronicity; Mood disorders; MRI; Obesity; Unipolar depression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BEHAVIOR; BODY MASS; BRAIN SIZE; CHRONICITY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HAMILTON DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMPULSE CONTROL; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY;

EID: 84920557208     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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