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Amygdala Volume Status Might Reflect Dominant Mode of Emotional Information Processing—Reply
Dennis Velakoulis, MBBS, FRANZCP;
Stephen Wood, MA(Cantab), PhD;
Michael Wong, MBBS, MD, MRCPsych(UK), FRANZCP;
Patrick McGorry, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRANZCP;
Alison Yung, MBBS, MD, MPM, FRANZCP;
Lisa Phillips, MPsych;
De Smith, GradDipAdolPsych;
Warrick Brewer, BPsych(Hons), MA, PhD;
Tina Proffitt, DPsych;
Patricia Desmond, MSc, MD, FRACR;
Christos Pantelis, MD, MRCPsych, FRANZCP
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Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the letters regarding our recent article. As is frequently the case, our findings have raised issues and questions that are best answered by further studies. The main aim of our study was to examine hippocampal and amygdala volumes across 3 different stages of psychosis. The strength of our study lies in the numbers of subjects examined, whereas the major limitation is related to its cross-sectional nature.
Tebartz van Elst et al have put forward an interesting hypothesis to explain the differing amygdala changes identified across neuroimaging studies. Their hypothesis, that . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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