Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 171, Issue 2 , Pages 138-143 , 28 February 2009

Caudate volumes in public transportation workers exposed to trauma in the Stockholm train system

  • Jeffrey Chee Leong Looi

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre for the Neurosciences of Ageing, Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, The Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia
    • Karolinska Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences & Society, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Research Centre for the Neurosciences of Ageing, Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, Building 4, Level 2, The Canberra Hospital, PO Box 11, Woden ACT 2605, Australia. Tel.: +61 2 6205 1977; fax: +61 2 6244 4964.
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  • Jerome Joseph Maller

      Affiliations

    • Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
    • Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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  • Marco Pagani

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy
    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Göran Högberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section for Psychiatry, Huddinge, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Olof Lindberg

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences & Society, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Benny Liberg

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences & Society, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Lisa Botes

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska University Hospital, Hospital Physics & Radiology, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Eva-Lena Engman

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska University Hospital, Hospital Physics & Radiology, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Yi Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska University Hospital, Hospital Physics & Radiology, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Leif Svensson

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska University Hospital, Hospital Physics & Radiology, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Lars-Olof Wahlund

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences & Society, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Received 6 September 2007 ,Revised 12 February 2008 ,Accepted 29 March 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2008.03.011

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 171, Issue 2 , Pages 138-143 , 28 February 2009

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