Implications of hippocampal morphology in first-episode schizophrenia

• Authors: KAŠPÁREK Tomáš; PŘIKRYL Radovan; SCHWARZ Daniel; KUČEROVÁ Hana; ČEŠKOVÁ Eva
• Year of publication: 2006
• Type: Article in Proceedings
• Conference: Final program and book of abstracts, Central/East European CINP Regional Meeting
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Medicine
• Field: Psychiatry, sexuology
• Keywords: hippocampus; morphology; schizophrenia
• Description: Recent data concernign hippocampal morphology in schizophrenia, its genetic background and functional consequences suggest that schizophrenia can be viewed as a disorder of connectivity of heteromodal association cortex leading to inefficient cooperation between the systems that participate on higher stages of information processing.

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