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Ventricular enlargement in adults with profound mental retardation who demonstrate violent/destructive behaviors
P B May1, K DeMarco, E B London
1UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. maypb@umdnj.edu
The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
The authors determined brain ventricular size (ventricular brain ratio [VBR]) in 39 ambulatory adult mentally retarded individuals who did or did not require psychotropic medication for violent/destructive behavior. The mean VBR of mentally retarded patients who required psychotropic medication was significantly greater than the VBR of those who did not require such medication.