Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 27-39 , 30 June 2006

Decreased choline and creatine concentrations in centrum semiovale in patients with generalized anxiety disorder: Relationship to IQ and early trauma

  • Jeremy D. Coplan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuropsychopharmacology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11023, USA
    • Department of Biological Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 718 270 2023; fax: +1 718 270 8826.
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  • Sanjay J. Mathew

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry (SJM, JGM) and Department of Neuroscience (PRH), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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  • Xiangling Mao

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Radiology, Psychiatry and Biophysics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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  • Eric L.P. Smith

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuropsychopharmacology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11023, USA
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  • Patrick R. Hof

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry (SJM, JGM) and Department of Neuroscience (PRH), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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  • Paul M. Coplan

      Affiliations

    • International Partnership for Microbicides, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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  • Leonard A. Rosenblum

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuropsychopharmacology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11023, USA
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  • Jack M. Gorman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry (SJM, JGM) and Department of Neuroscience (PRH), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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  • Dikoma C. Shungu

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Radiology, Psychiatry and Biophysics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA

Received 17 July 2005 ,Revised 12 December 2005 ,Accepted 29 December 2005.

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☆ Presented in part a: the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 42nd Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 8, 2003.

PII: S0925-4927(06)00003-5

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2005.12.011

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