Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 459-461 , November 2003

Nonreplication of the association between ab-ridge count and cerebral structural measures in schizophrenia

  • Araceli Rosa

      Affiliations

    • Unitat d’Antropologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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  • Machteld Marcelis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, azM/Mondriaan/Riagg/RIBW/Vijverdal Academic Centre, Maastricht University, European Graduate School of Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • John Suckling

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Age Research Unit, Department of Health Care of the Elderly, Guy’s King’s and St Thomas’ Medical School, London, UK
    • Department of Biostatistics and Computing, The Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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  • Paul Hofman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • Ed Bullmore

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    • ,
  • Philippe Delespaul

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, azM/Mondriaan/Riagg/RIBW/Vijverdal Academic Centre, Maastricht University, European Graduate School of Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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  • Lourdes Fañanás

      Affiliations

    • Unitat d’Antropologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Jim van Os

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Jim van Os, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, European Graduate School of Neuroscience, PO Box 616 (DRT 10), 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, azM/Mondriaan/Riagg/RIBW/Vijverdal Academic Centre, Maastricht University, European Graduate School of Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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☆ Supported by the Dutch Prevention Fund and the Dutch Brain Society. A.R. received an award from the Universitat de Barcelona.

PII: S0010-440X(03)00148-2

doi: 10.1016/S0010-440X(03)00148-2

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 459-461 , November 2003

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