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Progressive Cortical Change During Adolescence in Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Judith L. Rapoport,
Jay N. Giedd,
Jonathan D. Blumenthal,
Susan Hamburger,
Neal Jeffries,
Thomas Fernandez,
Rob Nicolson,
Jeffrey S. Bedwell,
Marge Lenane,
Alex Zijdenbos,
Tomáš Paus,
Alan C. Evans
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
archives of general psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3636
pISSN - 0003-990X
DOI - 10.1001/archpsyc.56.7.649
Subject(s) - white matter , psychology , psychosis , magnetic resonance imaging , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , brain size , cerebrospinal fluid , neuroimaging , grey matter , neuroscience , medicine , psychiatry , radiology
Adolescence provides a window to examine regional and disease-specific late abnormal brain development in schizophrenia. Because previous data showed progressive brain ventricular enlargement for a group of adolescents with childhood-onset schizophrenia at 2-year follow-up, with no significant changes for healthy controls, we hypothesized that there would be a progressive decrease in volume in other brain tissue in these patients during adolescence.

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