MRI Study of Caudate Nucleus Volume and Its Cognitive Correlates in Neuroleptic-Naive Patients With Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Abstract

These data are consistent with the findings of reduced caudate nucleus volume reported in studies of neuroleptic-naive patients experiencing their first episode of schizophrenia and support the association of intrinsic pathology in the caudate nucleus with abnormalities in working memory in the schizophrenia spectrum.

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Caudate nucleusPsychologySchizophrenia (object-oriented programming)Schizotypal personality disorderPsychosisFrontal lobeNeurosciencePsychiatry

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Year: 2002
Type: article
Volume: 159
Issue: 7
Pages: 1190-1197
Citations: 143
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                                    James J. Levitt, 
                                
                                    Robert W. McCarley, 
                                
                                    Chandlee C. Dickey
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2002). 
                            MRI Study of Caudate Nucleus Volume and Its Cognitive Correlates in Neuroleptic-Naive Patients With Schizotypal Personality Disorder. 
                            American Journal of Psychiatry
                            , 159
                            (7)
                            , 1190-1197.
                            https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.159.7.1190
                        

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DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.159.7.1190