Supplementary motor area (SMA) volume is associated with psychotic aberrant motor behaviour of patients with schizophrenia

Stegmayer, Katharina; Horn, Helge; Federspiel, Andrea; Razavi, Nadja; Bracht, Tobias; Laimböck, Karin; Strik, Werner; Dierks, Thomas; Wiest, Roland; Müller, Thomas J.; Walther, Sebastian (2014). Supplementary motor area (SMA) volume is associated with psychotic aberrant motor behaviour of patients with schizophrenia. Psychiatry research: Neuroimaging, 223(1), pp. 49-51. Elsevier 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2014.05.002

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We aimed to investigate whether aberrant motor behavior in schizophrenia was associated with structural alterations in the motor system. Whole brain voxel based morphometry of patients with different severity of motor symptoms identified altered gray matter volume in the supplementary motor area (SMA), a key region of the motor system.

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