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Impairment of Perception and Recognition of Faces, Facial Expression and Gestures in Schizophrenic Children and Adolescents

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Schizophrenia and Youth

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During the past 8 years our research work in schizophrenic patients has been guided by three hypotheses. (a) Schizophrenia is a disease caused by disturbances in transmitter-receptor interaction in nerve cells and/or by structural deficits of the neuronal networks located in cerebral areas which are man-specific, i.e., which have developed during hominid evolution from Homo habilis to Homo sapiens sapiens. (b) The process underlying schizophrenia is not restricted to circumscribed brain regions such as parts of the hippocampus, area entorhinalis, hypothalamus or restricted areas of the frontal lobe. It comprises extended man-specific cortical functions. (c) The variability in clinical symptoms indicates that the relative involvement of different cortical and subcortical regions in schizophrenia must differ from patient to patient. Four our arguments it is not of primary importance whether the disturbance is dominated by genetic, viral or environmental factors, since internal and external factors act within the cerebral structure on a common endpath, affecting the signal processing be synaptic structures and nerve cell membranes.

This research was supported in part by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Gr. 161/35). The support of an Akademie-Stipendium by the Volkswagen Foundation (1988–1989) is also gratefully acknowledged.

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Grüsser, OJ. (1991). Impairment of Perception and Recognition of Faces, Facial Expression and Gestures in Schizophrenic Children and Adolescents. In: Eggers, C. (eds) Schizophrenia and Youth. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02684-7_10

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