Article
Can brain damage protect against schizophrenia? A case report of twins.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science - 1 Oct 1990
Lewis S W, Harvey I, Ron M, Murray R, Reveley A
Abstract excerpt
In a pair of male monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia, MRI revealed no abnormality in the ill proband, but extensive white-matter damage of likely congenital origin in the psychiatrically normal twin. These findings are difficult to reconcile with multifactorial models of schizophrenia...
Topics
- Adult
- Brain
- Brain Damage, Chronic
- Diseases in Twins
- Humans
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Male
- Neurocognitive Disorders
- Phenotype
- Schizophrenia
- Twins, Monozygotic