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Structural cerebral pathology in schizophrenia: regional or diffuse?
1Department of Psychology, Memphis State University, Tennessee 38152.
Abstract:
Is brain pathology in schizophrenia topographically distinct? If so, are the putative regional changes unique to the disorder? To address these questions, 56 chronic schizophrenic Ss were compared with 16 psychiatric control Ss with mood disorders and with 31 healthy volunteers on multiple-volume measures of regional cerebral atrophy obtained with computed tomography. Generalized cortical and subcortical enlargement of spaces filled with cerebrospinal fluid sparing only the occipitoparietal cortex was found in the schizophrenic Ss compared with normal control Ss. Statistically significant differences in the extent of perisylvian atrophy were noted between schizophrenic Ss and patients with mood disorders: Schizophrenic Ss evidenced greater dilation of perisylvian fissures and sulci. The implications of the results for future research and for recent theories on the etiology of schizophrenia are discussed.
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