Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 155, Issue 2 , Pages 103-112 , 15 July 2007

Neural substrates of olfactory processing in schizophrenia patients and their healthy relatives

  • Frank Schneider

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
    • Brain Imaging Center West (BICW), Research Center Jülich, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 241 8089633; fax: +49 241 8082401.
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  • Ute Habel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
    • ,
  • Martina Reske

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
    • ,
  • Ivan Toni

      Affiliations

    • F.C. Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Peter Falkai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Göttingen, Germany
    • ,
  • N. Jon Shah

      Affiliations

    • Brain Imaging Center West (BICW), Research Center Jülich, Germany
    • Institute of Neuroscience and Biophysics - Medicine, Research Center Jülich, Germany

Received 11 April 2005 ,Revised 21 July 2005 ,Accepted 4 December 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2006.12.004

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 155, Issue 2 , Pages 103-112 , 15 July 2007

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