Nicotine Use as a Possible Risk Factor for Subcortical Abnormalities
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Abstract To the Editor.— The findings of Dupont et al1 contribute to the efforts to understand the structural and neuropsy-chological correlates of affective disorder.The authors note that the subcortical signal hyperintensities in the magnetic resonance imaging scans of a subgroup of bipolar patients might also be found in patients with multiple sclerosis or Binswanger's disease. They did not feel that this was relevant in their study because the magnetic resonance imaging...