Regional increases of cortical thickness in untreated, first-episode major depressive disorder

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Qiu, L ^a,b   Lui, S ^a   Kuang, W ^a   Huang, X ^a   Li, J ^a,c   Zhang, J ^a   Chen, H ^c   Sweeney, J A ^d   Gong, Q ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Second People's Hospital of Yibin   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); CUNEUS; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; ORBITOFRONTAL GYRUS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARS OPERCULARIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; SURFACE PROPERTY; THALAMUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HAMILTON DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; BRAIN CORTEX; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84927708856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2014.18     Document Type: Article

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