Brain structural abnormalities in patients with major depression with or without generalized anxiety disorder comorbidity

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 262, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1255-1265

  Canu, Elisa ^a   Kostić, Milutin ^b   Agosta, Federica ^a   Munjiza, Ana ^b   Ferraro, Pilar M ^a   Pesic, Danilo ^b   Copetti, Massimiliano ^e   Peljto, Amir ^b   Tosevski, Dusica Lecic ^b,c,d   Filippi, Massimo ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^d SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

^e CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anxiety anxiety disorders; Biological markers; Brain imaging neuroimaging; Depression; Mood disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HAMILTON ANXIETY SCALE; HAMILTON DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; MEDIAL ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929837334     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-015-7701-z     Document Type: Article

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