Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 182, Issue 3 , Pages 216-222 , 30 June 2010

Insular cortex thinning in first episode schizophrenia patients

  • Roberto Roiz-Santiáñez

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, IFIMAV, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
    • CIBERSAM, Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental, Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • Rocío Pérez-Iglesias

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, IFIMAV, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
    • CIBERSAM, Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental, Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • Carlos Quintero

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, IFIMAV, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
    • ,
  • Diana Tordesillas-Gutiérrez

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, IFIMAV, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
    • CIBERSAM, Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental, Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • Ignacio Mata

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, IFIMAV, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
    • CIBERSAM, Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental, Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • Rosa Ayesa

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, IFIMAV, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
    • CIBERSAM, Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental, Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • José Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, IFIMAV, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
    • ,
  • Agustín Gutiérrez

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Department of Neuroradiology, Santander, Spain
    • ,
  • Elena Sanchez

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Department of Neuroradiology, Santander, Spain
    • ,
  • José Luis Vázquez-Barquero

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, IFIMAV, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
    • CIBERSAM, Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental, Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • Benedicto Crespo-Facorro

      Affiliations

    • University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, IFIMAV, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
    • CIBERSAM, Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red Salud Mental, Madrid, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Department of Psychiatry, Planta 2a, Edificio 2 de Noviembre, Avda. Valdecilla s/n, 39008, Santander, Spain. Tel.: +34 942 202537; fax: +34 942 203447.

Received 26 October 2009 ,Revised 11 January 2010 ,Accepted 6 March 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.03.001

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 182, Issue 3 , Pages 216-222 , 30 June 2010

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