Neuromelanin Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals Increased Dopaminergic Neuron Activity in the Substantia Nigra of Patients with Schizophrenia

• Yoshiyuki Watanabe ,

  * E-mail: watanabe@radiol.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

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• Hisashi Tanaka,

  Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

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• Akio Tsukabe,

  Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

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• Yuki Kunitomi,

  Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

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• Mitsuo Nishizawa,

  Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

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• Ryota Hashimoto,

  Affiliations Research Center for Children’s Mental Development, United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Suita, Japan, Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

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• Hidenaga Yamamori,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

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• Michiko Fujimoto,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

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• Masaki Fukunaga,

  Affiliation Departments of Biofunctional Imaging and Immunology, Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Japan

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• Noriyuki Tomiyama

  Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

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