'Early-onset schizophrenia' after teenage head injury. A case report with magnetic resonance imaging.
A 14-year-old youth sustained an injury to the left frontoparietal area, which was followed by evident change in personality and subsequently by an early-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed ventricular dilatation, slightly more marked in the left hemisphere, and cortical atrophy. Some implications of this case for research on schizophrenia itself are discussed.
O'Callaghan
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Royal College of Surgeons, St Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland.
Larkin
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C
Redmond
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Stack
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Ennis
J T
JT
Waddington
J L
JL
D000293:Adolescent; D001284:Atrophy / Q000150:complications; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000209:etiology*