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Caudate volume in offspring of patients with schizophrenia.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science - 1 Sept 2007
Rajarethinam Rajaprabhakaran, Upadhyaya Ameet, Tsou Pon, Upadhyaya Margie, Keshavan Matcheri S
Abstract excerpt
Caudate nuclei are smaller in drug-naive people with schizophrenia but larger in antipsychotic-treated patients. In this magnetic resonance imaging study we found volume reduction of right and left caudate by 8.9 and 8.1% respectively in 50 offspring without psychosis of patients with schizophrenia compared with 53 age- and gender-matched controls, providing new evidence that caudate volume reduction may be a...
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