Common and disorder-specific cortical thickness alterations in internalizing, externalizing and thought disorders

Gechang Yu1, Zhaowen Liu1, Xinran Wu1

  • 1From the Institute of Science and Technology for Brain Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Yu, Wu, Fan, Peng, Kuang, Kang, Dong, Zhao, Feng, Sahakian, Robbins, Zhang); the Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Ministry of Education, China (Yu, Wu, Fan, Peng, Kuang, Feng, Zhang); the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA (Liu); the Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., USA (Liu); the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Mass., USA (Liu); the Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China (Becker); the School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China (Zhang); the Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Kang); the MOE Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Dong, Zhao); the Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Shanghai, China (Zhao); the PONS Centre Shanghai, Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Schumann); the PONS Centre Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin, Germany (Feng); the Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai, China (Feng); the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK (Feng); the Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Feng); the Fudan ISTBI-ZJNU Algorithm Centre for Brain-inspired Intelligence, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China (Feng); the Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (Sahakian); the Department of Psychology, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (Robbins); the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Que., Canada (Palaniyappan); the Department of Psychiatry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ont., Canada (Palaniyappan); the Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ont., Canada (Palaniyappan); the Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ont., Canada (Palaniyappan).

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