Schizophrenia Research
Volume 115, Issue 2 , Pages 182-190 , December 2009

Deviant trajectories of cortical maturation in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS): A cross-sectional and longitudinal study

  • Marie Schaer

      Affiliations

    • Service Médico-Pédagogique, Department of Psychiatry, Geneva Faculty of Medicine, 1 rue David Dufour, P.O. Box 50, CH-1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland
    • Signal Processing Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Service Médico-Pédagogique, 1 rue David Dufour, P.O. Box 50, CH-1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 22 388 67 31; fax: +41 22 388 67 69.
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  • Martin Debbané

      Affiliations

    • Service Médico-Pédagogique, Department of Psychiatry, Geneva Faculty of Medicine, 1 rue David Dufour, P.O. Box 50, CH-1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Meritxell Bach Cuadra

      Affiliations

    • Signal Processing Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Marie-Christine Ottet

      Affiliations

    • Service Médico-Pédagogique, Department of Psychiatry, Geneva Faculty of Medicine, 1 rue David Dufour, P.O. Box 50, CH-1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Bronwyn Glaser

      Affiliations

    • Service Médico-Pédagogique, Department of Psychiatry, Geneva Faculty of Medicine, 1 rue David Dufour, P.O. Box 50, CH-1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Jean-Philippe Thiran

      Affiliations

    • Signal Processing Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Stephan Eliez

      Affiliations

    • Service Médico-Pédagogique, Department of Psychiatry, Geneva Faculty of Medicine, 1 rue David Dufour, P.O. Box 50, CH-1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland

Received 11 March 2009 ,Revised 15 July 2009 ,Accepted 13 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2009.09.016

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 115, Issue 2 , Pages 182-190 , December 2009

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