Quantitative computed tomographic study in schizophrenia: cerebral density and ventricle measures.
Twenty-seven chronic schizophrenics and nineteen controls, all male, were evaluated by computed tomography (CT) scans. Lateral, third and fourth ventricles and cerebral density numbers were measured. In the schizophrenic patients there was a significant increase in third ventricle width, Ventricular Brain Ratio (VBR) and there were significantly higher densities of white matter in the right frontal and parietal region.
Department of Clinical Psychiatry, S.M. Collemaggio Hospital, L'Aquila, Italy.
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Rossi
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Stratta
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D'Albenzio
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Di Michele
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Serio
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L
Giordano
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Petruzzi
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Casacchia
D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000473:pathology*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000473:pathology*; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed