Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 183, Issue 2 , Pages 93-98 , 30 August 2010

The effects of reality distortion syndrome on salient stimuli processing in patients with schizophrenia: An fMRI study

  • Panayiota G. Michalopoulou

      Affiliations

    • Section on Schizophrenia, Imaging and Therapeutics, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, SE5 8AF, UK
    • Cognition Schizophrenia Imaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, SE5 8AF, UK
    • Second Department of Psychiatry “ATTIKON” General Hospital, 1 Rimini St., Athens, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK. Tel.: +44 020 7848 0356; fax: +44 020 7848 0350.
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  • Vincent P. Giampietro

      Affiliations

    • Brain Image Analysis Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, SE5 8AF, UK
    • ,
  • Lucy A. Morley

      Affiliations

    • Cognition Schizophrenia Imaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, SE5 8AF, UK
    • ,
  • Adnan Azim

      Affiliations

    • Cognition Schizophrenia Imaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, SE5 8AF, UK
    • ,
  • Shitij Kapur

      Affiliations

    • Section on Schizophrenia, Imaging and Therapeutics, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, SE5 8AF, UK
    • ,
  • Lefteris Lykouras

      Affiliations

    • Second Department of Psychiatry “ATTIKON” General Hospital, 1 Rimini St., Athens, Greece
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  • Sukhwinder S. Shergill

      Affiliations

    • Cognition Schizophrenia Imaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, SE5 8AF, UK

Received 6 May 2009 ,Revised 8 April 2010 ,Accepted 14 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.04.010

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 183, Issue 2 , Pages 93-98 , 30 August 2010

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