BioMed Research International
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 325052, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/325052
Patients with Poor Response to Antipsychotics Have a More Severe Pattern of Frontal Atrophy: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study of Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia
1Biostructure and Bioimaging Institute, National Research Council, Via T. De Amicis 95, 80145 Naples, Italy
2Section of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience and Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University “Federico II”, 80131 Naples, Italy
3IDC Hermitage Capodimonte Spa, 80145 Naples, Italy
4Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University “Federico II”, 80131 Naples, Italy
5Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University “Federico II”, 80131 Naples, Italy
Received 13 February 2014; Revised 20 June 2014; Accepted 11 July 2014; Published 23 July 2014
Academic Editor: Annalena Venneri
Copyright © 2014 Mario Quarantelli et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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