[Study of the morphological characteristics of the brain in patients with schizophrenia by the method of computerized...

The article presents the data on 57 schizophrenic and 26 neurotic patients investigated by computerized tomography (CT). Only 4 of the neurosis patients (15.4%) displayed minor CT changes. In 45 schizophrenic patients (78.9%) CT changes were detected varying in their markedness. Most frequent were enlargement of cortical sulci (39 patients). Brain ventricles were dilated in 18 patients, cistern, retropineal and retrosellar spaces dilated in 13. Deficit disorders prevailed clinically in patients whose CT scans showed distinct signs of cortical and subcortical atrophy. These patients also had signs of organic pathology accumulated in the early childhood anamnesis. The authors suggest that this was a factor increasing the brain system' susceptibility to destructive impact of endogenous events.