Brain structure correlates of urban upbringing, an environmental risk factor for schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Bulletin

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 115-122

  Haddad, Leila ^a   Schäfer, Axel ^a   Streit, Fabian ^a   Lederbogen, Florian ^a   Grimm, Oliver ^a   Wüst, Stefan ^a,b   Deuschle, Michael ^a   Kirsch, Peter ^a   Tost, Heike ^a   Meyer Lindenberg, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cortical volume; environmental risk; schizophrenia; social stress hypothesis; urbanicity; voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STRUCTURE; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EARLY LIFE URBANICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL STRESS; URBAN AREA; URBAN UPBRINGING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; CINGULATE GYRUS; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; GYRUS CINGULI; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928785656     PISSN: 05867614     EISSN: 17451701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbu072     Document Type: Article

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