An MRI study of amygdala in schizophrenia and psychotic bipolar disorder.

Schizophrenia Research
Pamela Belmonte MahonP Barta

Abstract

Meta-analyses report larger amygdala in subjects with bipolar disorder compared to schizophrenia. However, few studies have compared the size of amygdala in psychotic bipolar disorder with schizophrenia. Here we examine size of amygdala in a sample of 36 patients with psychotic bipolar disorder, 31 patients with schizophrenia and 27 healthy comparison subjects. Patients with schizophrenia had smaller amygdala compared with patients with psychotic bipolar disorder (p=0.014). These results suggest that change in volume of amygdala may represent a morphologic feature distinguishing psychotic bipolar disorder from schizophrenia.

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Mar 15, 2015·Schizophrenia Research·Pamela B MahonJ Tilak Ratnanather
Sep 10, 2013·Schizophrenia Research·J Tilak RatnanatherPatrick E Barta
Sep 10, 2013·Brain Research·Caroline GurvichJayashri Kulkarni
Apr 3, 2019·Reviews in the Neurosciences·Noemi Császár-NagyIstván Bókkon
Sep 19, 2017·American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric Genetics : the Official Publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics·Ziarih HawiMark A Bellgrove

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