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Brain volume changes in schizophrenia: how do they arise? what do they mean?

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:  20 April 2009

D. A. Lewis
D. A. Lewis*
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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*Address for correspondence: D. A. Lewis, M.D., Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, W1652 BST, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA15213, USA. (Email: lewisda@upmc.edu)
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Keywords

Antipsychotic medicationscerebral cortexschizophrenia
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 39 , Issue 11 , November 2009 , pp. 1779 - 1780
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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