title: Increased ventricle-to-brain ratio in late-onset schizophrenia.
abstract: For 29 patients with schizophrenia that began after age 44, the mean ventricle-to-brain ratio was significantly higher than for 23 age-matched normal subjects but significantly smaller than for 23 patients with Alzheimer's disease and hallucinations or delusions.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D003702:Delusions / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed