The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in < YMEN 42 (2016) 544 - 545 >, http://dx.doi.org/10.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Elevated rate of aging-related biological and functional decline, termed "accelerated aging," is reported in patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) and major depressive disorder (MDD). We used diffusion tensor imaging derived fractional anisotropy (FA) as a biomarker of aging-related decline in white matter (WM) integrity to test the hypotheses of accelerated aging in SCZ and MDD.
Methods: The SCZ cohort comprised 58 SCZ patients and 60 controls (aged 20-60 years).