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Smaller nasal volumes as stigmata of aberrant neurodevelopment in schizophrenia.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Dec 2004
Moberg Paul J, Roalf David R, Gur Raquel E, Turetsky Bruce I
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Anatomical and functional deficits of the olfactory neural system have been identified in patients with schizophrenia. Since olfactory structures develop in conjunction with both the palate and ventral forebrain, the authors hypothesized that schizophrenia patients might have structural abnormalities of the nasal cavity, which could represent specific markers of embryological dysmorphogenesis...
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