Two patterns of white matter abnormalities in medication-naive patients with first-episode schizophrenia revealed by diffusion tensor imaging and cluster analysis

JAMA Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 678-686

  Sun, Huaiqiang ^a   Lui, Su ^a   Yao, Li ^a   Deng, Wei ^a   Xiao, Yuan ^a   Zhang, Wenjing ^a   Huang, Xiaoqi ^a   Hu, Junmei ^a   Bi, Feng ^a   Li, Tao ^a   Sweeney, John A ^b   Gong, Qiyong ^a,c  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WHITE MATTER LESION; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937484628     PISSN: 2168622X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.0505     Document Type: Article

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