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Different gray matter patterns in chronic schizophrenia and chronic bipolar disorder patients identified using voxel-based morphometry

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Gray matter (GM) volume deficits have been described in patients with schizophrenia (Sz) and bipolar disorder (BD), but to date, few studies have directly compared GM volumes between these syndromes with methods allowing for whole-brain comparisons. We have used structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) to compare GM volumes between 38 Sz and 19 BD chronic patients. We also included 24 healthy controls. The results revealed a widespread cortical (dorsolateral and medial prefrontal and precentral) and cerebellar deficit as well as GM deficits in putamen and thalamus in Sz when compared to BD patients. Besides, a subcortical GM deficit was shown by Sz and BD groups when compared to the healthy controls, although a putaminal reduction was only evident in the Sz patients. In this comparison, the BD patients showed a limited cortical and subcortical GM deficit. These results support a partly different pattern of GM deficits associated to chronic Sz and chronic BD, with some degree of overlapping.

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Supported in part by a Grant from the Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (FIS; PI080017). The FIS had no further role in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Paseo de San Vicente, 58-182, 37007, Salamanca, Spain

    Vicente Molina, Gemma Galindo & Benjamín Cortés

  2. Medical Imaging Laboratory, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

    Alba G. Seco de Herrera & Juan A. Hernández-Tamames

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Doce de Octubre, Madrid, Spain

    Javier Sanz

  4. Department of Radiophysics, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Carlos Montes

  5. Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Clínico de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

    Ana Ledo

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Molina, V., Galindo, G., Cortés, B. et al. Different gray matter patterns in chronic schizophrenia and chronic bipolar disorder patients identified using voxel-based morphometry. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 261, 313–322 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-010-0183-1

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