Open AccessDecreased left frontal lobe N-acetylaspartate in schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Raymond F. Deicken,
Liqun Zhou,
Frank Corwin,
Sophia Vinogradov,
Michael W. Weiner
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.477
H-Index - 353
eISSN - 1535-7228
pISSN - 0002-953X
DOI - 10.1176/ajp.154.5.688
Subject(s) - frontal lobe , psychosis , creatine , choline , temporal lobe , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , psychology , prefrontal cortex , neuroscience , psychiatry , cardiology , radiology , epilepsy , cognition
The authors measured N-acetylaspartate (a putative neuronal marker), using in vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (1H-MRSI), in the frontal lobes of schizophrenic patients and normal subjects.
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