Hippocampal and amygdalar local structural differences in elderly patients with schizophrenia.

Prestia, Annapaola; Cavedo, Enrica; Boccardi, Marina; Muscio, Cristina; Adorni, Andrea; Geroldi, Cristina; Bonetti, Matteo; Thompson, Paul M; Frisoni, Giovanni B

Hippocampal and amygdalar local structural differences in elderly patients with schizophrenia.

Date

2014-12-16

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Abstract

Morphological abnormalities have been reported for the hippocampi and amygdalae in young schizophrenia patients but very little is known about the pattern of abnormalities in elderly schizophrenia patients Here we investigated local structural differences in the hippocampi and amygdalae of elderly schizophrenia patients compared with healthy elderly subjects We also related these differences to clinical symptom severity