Schizophrenia Research
Volume 43, Issue 2 , Pages 97-108 , 16 June 2000

Reduced anterior cingulate gyrus volume correlates with executive dysfunction in men with first-episode schizophrenia

  • Philip R. Szeszko

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry Research, Hillside Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, 75-59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-718-470-8489; fax: +1-718-343-1659
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  • Robert M. Bilder

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry Research, Hillside Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, 75-59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
    • Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY 10962, USA
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  • Todd Lencz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry Research, Hillside Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, 75-59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
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  • Manzar Ashtari

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, New Hyde Park, NY 11040, USA
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  • Robert S. Goldman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry Research, Hillside Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, 75-59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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  • Gail Reiter

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry Research, Hillside Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, 75-59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
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  • Houwei Wu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry Research, Hillside Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, 75-59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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  • Jeffrey A. Lieberman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

Received 12 January 1999 ,Accepted 16 July 1999.

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☆ This study was presented in part at the 1998 Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Schizophrenia Research
Volume 43, Issue 2 , Pages 97-108 , 16 June 2000

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