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Partial volume decrease of the thalamus in relatives of patients with schizophrenia.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Dec 1998
Staal W G, Hulshoff Pol H E, Schnack H, van der Schot A C, Kahn R S
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OBJECTIVE: The authors' goal was to compare the thalamic, total brain, and intracranial volumes of patients with schizophrenia, their healthy siblings, and normal comparison subjects. METHOD: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans were obtained for 32 same-sex siblings who were discordant for schizophrenia and 32 matched normal comparison subjects. RESULTS: Mean total thalamic volume, corrected for total...
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