Cerebellar morphology in chronic schizophrenic patients: a controlled computed tomography study.
Simple, objective, linear, and density measures were used to evaluate by computed tomography (CT) the cerebellum-fourth ventricular region of 23 chronic schizophrenic patients and 23 normal controls. Our data suggest that a subgroup of chronic schizophrenic patients have cerebellar atrophy associated with a strong but nonsignificant trend toward increased cerebellar density. The implications of these findings are discussed in view of previous CT and neuropathological studies.
D000328:Adult; D001284:Atrophy; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000473:pathology*; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed