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Meaning of Structural Changes in the Brain in Schizophrenia

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Recent Advances in Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia is often described as a “functional” psychosis with the implication that, along with manic-depressive disease, the illness is distinguishable on pathological grounds from the “organic” psychoses, for example, the dementias, in which brain changes can be identified. A psychological distinction also drawn is that impairments of learning, manifest as disorders of orientation, characteristic of the organic psychoses, are absent in the “functional” psychoses.

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Crow, T.J. (1990). Meaning of Structural Changes in the Brain in Schizophrenia. In: Recent Advances in Schizophrenia. International Perspectives Series: Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3248-3_4

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