title: Birth weight and CT scan findings in chronic schizophrenic patients.
abstract: The relations of birth weight to CT scan measures of lateral ventricular size, third ventricular size, frontal cortical sulcal prominence, and parieto-occipital cortical sulcal prominence were examined in 24 chronic schizophrenic patients. In contrast to the inverse correlation between birth weight and ventricular size found among offspring of schizophrenic parents in the Danish High-Risk Study, and the predictions of the subsequent hypothesis, no significant relations between birth weight and CT scan measures were observed in this study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912-3800.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Schnur
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Decina
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001724:Birth Weight; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D014695:Cerebral Ventriculography; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012737:Sex Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed