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Alkomiet Hasan1, Lisa Kremer, Oliver Gruber
1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Georg-August-University, Von-Siebold-Street 5, 37075 Goettingen, Germany.
Abstract:
In schizophrenia patients reduced cerebral asymmetry is an important finding and this may reflect a disturbance in cortical development. We investigated planum temporale (PT) volume and asymmetry in 23 first-episode schizophrenia patients compared to healthy controls and found for the first time an in vivo volume asymmetry of PT to the right hemisphere.
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