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The effects of antipsychotics on brain structure: what have we learnt from structural imaging of schizophrenia?

A commentary on ‘Do antipsychotic drugs affect brain structure? A systematic and critical review of MRI findings’ by Navari & Dazzan (2009)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2009

S. J. Borgwardt ,
R. Smieskova ,
P. Fusar-Poli ,
K. Bendfeldt  and
A. Riecher-Rössler
S. J. Borgwardt*
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Outpatient Department, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland Medical Image Analysis Centre, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland Section of Neuroimaging, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
R. Smieskova
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Outpatient Department, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland Medical Image Analysis Centre, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
P. Fusar-Poli
Affiliation:
Section of Neuroimaging, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
K. Bendfeldt
Affiliation:
Medical Image Analysis Centre, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
A. Riecher-Rössler
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Outpatient Department, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
*
*Address for correspondence: Dr S. J. Borgwardt, Psychiatric Outpatient Department, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, CH-4031Basel, Switzerland. (Email: [email protected])
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Keywords

AntipsychoticsARMSbrain structureMRIschizophrenia
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 39 , Issue 11 , November 2009 , pp. 1781 - 1782
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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