Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 174, Issue 1 , Pages 62-66 , 30 October 2009

Hippocampal volume in first episode and recurrent depression

  • Klaus-Thomas Kronmüller

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Voßstraße 4, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany. Tel.: +49 6221 5632747; fax: +49 6221 565477.
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  • Johannes Schröder

      Affiliations

    • Section of Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Sebastian Köhler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Bianca Götz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Daniela Victor

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Jörg Unger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Frederic Giesel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Vincent Magnotta

      Affiliations

    • Mental Health Clinical Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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  • Christoph Mundt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Marco Essig

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Johannes Pantel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Received 9 March 2007 ,Revised 17 December 2007 ,Accepted 5 August 2008.

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PII: S0925-4927(08)00120-0

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2008.08.001

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 174, Issue 1 , Pages 62-66 , 30 October 2009

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