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So far it has not been possible to find any specific morphological or biochemical changes in the brains of patients suffering from chronic schizophrenia. Furthermore, several studies have shown that the oxygen uptake and blood flow in this mental disorder are normal (5). Despite this, we have carried out rCBF studies in a group of chronic schizophrenics with a multi-detector system in order to investigate two problems: (1) whether the rCBF distribution in the dominant hemisphere at rest is normal, and (2) whether attempts at mental activation in highly deteriorated patients elicit activation patterns of the rCBF such as those seen in normals (3, 7). These problems have not been possible to study before.
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Ingvar, D.H., Franzén, G. (1975). Abnormalities of rCBF in Chronic Schizophrenia with Mental Deterioration. In: Langfitt, T.W., McHenry, L.C., Reivich, M., Wollman, H. (eds) Cerebral Circulation and Metabolism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65814-3_77
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