Schizophrenia Research
Volume 117, Issue 1 , Pages 101-102 , March 2010

Lack of progressive gray matter reduction of the superior temporal subregions in chronic schizophrenia

  • Tsutomu Takahashi

      Affiliations

    • Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Melbourne, Australia
    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, The University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
    • Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan. Tel.: +81 76 434 2281; fax: +81 76 434 5030.
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  • Stephen J. Wood

      Affiliations

    • Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Melbourne, Australia
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  • Yasuhiro Kawasaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, The University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
    • Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Michio Suzuki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuropsychiatry, The University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
    • Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Dennis Velakoulis

      Affiliations

    • Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Melbourne, Australia
    • ,
  • Christos Pantelis

      Affiliations

    • Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Melbourne, Australia

Received 16 September 2009 ,Revised 21 December 2009 ,Accepted 22 December 2009.

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PII: S0920-9964(09)00625-2

doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2009.12.034

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 117, Issue 1 , Pages 101-102 , March 2010

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