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In the last decade there have been many studies on the morphological cerebral characteristics of schizophrenic patients, particularly with computerized tomography (CT) (1,2). The most frequently studied parameters have been cerebral ventricular size and cortical atrophy, both of which have been shown to be fairly different from the norm (1–4).
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Vita, A. et al. (1990). Brain density patterns in schizophrenia. In: Cazzullo, C.L., Sacchetti, E., Conte, G., Invernizzi, G., Vita, A. (eds) Plasticity and Morphology of the Central Nervous System. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0851-2_3
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