title: Regional volume deviations of brain structure in schizophrenia and psychotic bipolar disorder: computational morphometry study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  It is unclear whether schizophrenia and psychotic bipolar disorder are associated with similar deviations of brain morphometry.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To assess volumetric abnormalities of grey and white matter throughout the entire brain in individuals with schizophrenia or with bipolar disorder compared with the same control group.
  
  
  METHODS
  Brain scans were obtained by magnetic resonance imaging from 25 people with schizophrenia, 37 with bipolar disorder who had experienced psychotic symptoms and 52 healthy volunteers. Regional deviation in grey and white matter volume was assessed using computational morphometry.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Individuals with schizophrenia had distributed grey matter deficit predominantly involving the fronto-temporal neocortex, medial temporal lobe, insula, thalamus and cerebellum, whereas those with bipolar disorder had no significant regions of grey matter abnormality. Both groups had anatomically overlapping white matter deficits in regions normally occupied by major longitudinal and interhemispheric tracts.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Schizophrenia and psychotic bipolar disorder are associated with distinct grey matter deficits but anatomically coincident white matter abnormalities.
authors.affiliation: Division of Psychological Medicine, Box 63, Institute of Psychiatry, de Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK. c.mcdonald@iop.kcl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Colm
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McDonald
authors.forename: Ed
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bullmore
authors.forename: Pak
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sham
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chitnis
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Suckling
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: MacCabe
authors.forename: Muriel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Walshe
authors.forename: Robin M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Murray
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000473:pathology*; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000473:pathology*