Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 156, Issue 3 , Pages 269-273 , 15 December 2007

Visual hallucinations in schizophrenia investigated with functional magnetic resonance imaging

  • Viola Oertel

      Affiliations

    • Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Deparment of Psychiatry, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    • Deparment of Cognitive Neuroscience, University Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Oertel is to be contacted at Klinik fuer Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet, D-60590 Frankfurt, Germany. Linden, School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor, Adeilad Brigantia, Penrallt Road, Gwynedd LL57 2AS, United Kingdom.
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  • Anna Rotarska-Jagiela

      Affiliations

    • Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Deparment of Psychiatry, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    • Deparment of Anatomy III, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    • ,
  • Vincent G van de Ven

      Affiliations

    • Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    • ,
  • Corinna Haenschel

      Affiliations

    • Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Deparment of Psychiatry, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    • Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    • ,
  • Konrad Maurer

      Affiliations

    • Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Deparment of Psychiatry, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    • ,
  • David E.J. Linden

      Affiliations

    • Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Deparment of Psychiatry, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    • School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Oertel is to be contacted at Klinik fuer Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet, D-60590 Frankfurt, Germany. Linden, School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor, Adeilad Brigantia, Penrallt Road, Gwynedd LL57 2AS, United Kingdom.

Received 16 March 2007 ,Revised 8 September 2007 ,Accepted 9 September 2007.

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PII: S0925-4927(07)00181-3

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.09.004

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 156, Issue 3 , Pages 269-273 , 15 December 2007

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