Gray matter volumes in symptomatic and asymptomatic offspring of parents diagnosed with bipolar disorder

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 959-967

  Hanford, Lindsay C ^a   Hall, Geoffrey B ^b   Minuzzi, Luciano ^b,c   Sassi, Roberto B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Bipolar offspring; Gray matter volumes; High risk offspring; MRI; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PROGENY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PARENT; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PARENTS;

EID: 84954310492     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: 1435165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-015-0809-y     Document Type: Article

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