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Handwriting Analysis Indicates Spontaneous Dyskinesias in Neuroleptic Naïve Adolescents at High Risk for Psychosis
Published on: November 21, 2013
[A cases of schizencephaly associated psychosis]
Kaoru Komori1, Miho Komori, Junko Hayashi
1Department of Psychiatry, Cyubu Rousai Hospital, 1-10-6 Koumei, Minato ku, Nagoya 455-8530, Japan.
Abstract:
Schizencephalyis a rare disorder of brain development resulting in the formation of abnormal unilateral or bilateral clefts in the cerebral hemispheres. One patient is described with psychotic symptoms with unilateral schizencephaly. The implications of the association between schizencephaly and psychosis in these patients for understanding the biology of the psychoses are discussed.
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