Frontal and anterior cingulate activation during overt
verbal fluency in patients with first episode psychosis
Ativação frontal e do cíngulo anterior durante tarefa
de fluência verbal em pacientes em primeiro
episódio psicótico
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1 Department of Psychiatry, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo (SP), Brazil 2 Institute of Radiology, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo (SP), Brazil
3 Department of Preventive Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo (SP), Brazil
4 Section of Magnetic Resonance, Heart Institute, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo (SP), Brazil 5 Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, UK
Financing: Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom and The State of São Paulo Research Foundation - FAPESP, process no. 2003/13021-4
Conflicts of interests: None Submitted: 9 February 2005 Accepted: 10 April 2005
Correspondence
Maristela Schaufelberger
Centro de Medicina Nuclear do Hospital das Clínicas Travessa da Rua Dr. Ovídio Pires de Campos, s/n 05403-010 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Phone: (55 11) 3069-8132
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2Paulo R Menezes,
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