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Reduced amygdala volume in newly admitted psychiatric in-patients with unipolar major depression

Kronenberg G, Tebartz van Elst L, Regen F, Deuschle M, Heuser I, Colla M. Reduced amygdala volume in newly admitted psychiatric in-patients with unipolar major depression. J Psychiatr Res. September 2009;43(13):1112-1117.

Publication Date
September 2009

How Analyze was Used
“Brain volume was measured with an automatic segmentation routine of the ANALYZE ® 4.0. package …, which uses a seed-growing threshold approach with consecutive dilations and erosions.”

Keywords
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Amygdala/pathology
Analysis of Variance
Case-Control Studies
Cross-Sectional Studies
Depressive Disorder/pathology
Female
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Humans
Hydrocortisone/metabolism
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/methods
Inpatients
Longitudinal Studies
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)/methods
Male
Middle Aged
Regression Analysis
Saliva/metabolism
Statistics as Topic

Author Affiliation(s)
Department of Psychiatry, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Eschenallee 3, 14050 Berlin, Germany. (GK, FR, IH, MC)

Section for Experimental Neuropsychiatry, Freiburg Brain Imaging and South German Brain Imaging Center and Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical School, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Hauptstrasse 5, 79104 Freiburg, Germany. (LTE)

Central Institute of Mental Health, J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany. (MD)

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