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Childhood adversity and cortical thickness and surface area in a population at familial high risk of schizophrenia.
Psychological medicine - 1 Mar 2016
Barker V, Bois C, Johnstone E C, Owens D G C, Whalley H C, McIntosh A M, Lawrie S M
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BACKGROUND: There is now a well-established link between childhood adversity (CA) and schizophrenia. Similar structural abnormalities to those found in schizophrenia including alterations in grey-matter volume have also been shown in those who experience CA. METHOD: We examined whether global estimates of cortical thickness or surface area were altered in those familial high-risk subjects who had been referred to...
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