Is there a neuroanatomical basis of the vulnerability to suicidal behavior? A coordinate-based meta-analysis of structural and functional MRI studies

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  van Heeringen, Kees ^a   Bijttebier, Stijn ^a   Desmyter, Stefanie ^a   Vervaet, Myriam ^a   Baeken, Chris ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Decision making; Gray matter; Meta analysis; Suicide; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECTAL GYRUS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84933679272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00824     Document Type: Article

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