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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Laura Wiseman Harris
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-13564 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Harris Laura W LW Lockstone Helen E HE Khaitovich Phillipp P Weickert Cynthia Shannon CS Webster Maree J MJ Bahn Sabine S
BMC medical genomics 20090520
<h4>Background</h4>Many critical maturational processes take place in the human brain during postnatal development. In particular, the prefrontal cortex does not reach maturation until late adolescence and this stage is associated with substantial white matter volume increases. Patients with schizophrenia and other major psychiatric disorders tend to first present with overt symptoms during late adolescence/early adulthood and it has been proposed that this developmental stage represents a "wind ...[more]