| Literature DB >> 14984888 |
Vaibhav A Diwadkar1, Michael D DeBellis, John A Sweeney, Jay W Pettegrew, Matcheri S Keshavan.
Abstract
The microstructural integrity of the corpus callosum (CC) in first-episode schizophrenia patients was assessed by measuring the signal intensity (SI) in T1-weighted MRI images. Analyses revealed that compared to both healthy controls and non-schizophrenic patients, schizophrenia patients showed reductions in SI in all the callosal subregions, the genu, body, isthmus and splenium in first-episode schizophrenia. These results indicate that schizophrenia is characterized by pathology of this principal interhemispheric commissure; the abnormalities may reflect distributed (rather than localized) interhemispheric disconnectivity that extends beyond the heteromodal association cortices.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 14984888 DOI: 10.1016/S0920-9964(03)00098-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Schizophr Res ISSN: 0920-9964 Impact factor: 4.939