Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 174, Issue 3 , Pages 184-194 , 30 December 2009

A principal component network analysis of prefrontal-limbic functional magnetic resonance imaging time series in schizophrenia patients and healthy controls

  • Anca R. Rădulescu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Applied Mathematics, UCB 526, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0526, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 303 735 6209; fax: +1 303 492 4066.
    • ,
  • Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8181, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY 11794-7124, USA

Received 20 September 2008 ,Revised 29 April 2009 ,Accepted 29 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.04.017

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 174, Issue 3 , Pages 184-194 , 30 December 2009

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