Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 174, Issue 1 , Pages 67-75 , 30 October 2009

Caudate nucleus volumes in stroke and vascular dementia

  • Jeffrey Chee Leong Looi

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre for the Neurosciences of Ageing, Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, Building 4, Level 2, The Canberra Hospital, P.O. Box 11, Woden Australian Capital Territory 2605, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 2 6244-3500; fax: +61 2 6244 4964.
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  • Vanessa Tatham

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre for the Neurosciences of Ageing, Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, Building 4, Level 2, The Canberra Hospital, P.O. Box 11, Woden Australian Capital Territory 2605, Australia
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  • Rajeev Kumar

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre for the Neurosciences of Ageing, Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, Building 4, Level 2, The Canberra Hospital, P.O. Box 11, Woden Australian Capital Territory 2605, Australia
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  • Jerome J. Maller

      Affiliations

    • Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    • Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, Canberrra, Australia
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  • Ellen Millard

      Affiliations

    • Research Centre for the Neurosciences of Ageing, Academic Unit of Psychological Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, Building 4, Level 2, The Canberra Hospital, P.O. Box 11, Woden Australian Capital Territory 2605, Australia
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  • Wei Wen

      Affiliations

    • School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
    • Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
    • ,
  • Xiaohua Chen

      Affiliations

    • School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
    • Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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  • Henry Brodaty

      Affiliations

    • School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
    • Primary Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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  • Perminder Sachdev

      Affiliations

    • School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
    • Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Received 25 August 2008 ,Revised 19 January 2009 ,Accepted 15 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.04.002

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 174, Issue 1 , Pages 67-75 , 30 October 2009

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