Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 162, Issue 2 , Pages 91-100 , 28 February 2008

Patterns of cranial, brain and sulcal CSF volumes in male and female deficit and nondeficit patients with schizophrenia

  • Celso Arango

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Psiquiatría, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Unidad de Adolescentes, Dpto de Psiquiatría, c/ Ibiza 43, Madrid, Spain
    • Maryland Psychiatric Research Center; University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +34 915868133; fax: +34 914265005.
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  • Robert P. McMahon

      Affiliations

    • Maryland Psychiatric Research Center; University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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  • David M. Lefkowitz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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  • Godfrey Pearlson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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  • Brian Kirkpatrick

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA
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  • Robert W. Buchanan

      Affiliations

    • Maryland Psychiatric Research Center; University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Received 12 July 2006 ,Revised 14 April 2007 ,Accepted 4 June 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.06.002

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 162, Issue 2 , Pages 91-100 , 28 February 2008

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