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Neuromorphological correlates of schizophrenic disorders: focus on cerebral ventricular enlargement

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The search for some visible basis for insanity is certainly not recent. We know that even in the Middle Ages the allegory of the “madness stone” had stable place in the popular thought of the time.

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Sacchetti, E., Vita, A., Calzeroni, A., Invernizzi, G., Cazzullo, C.L. (1987). Neuromorphological correlates of schizophrenic disorders: focus on cerebral ventricular enlargement. In: Cazzullo, C.L., Invernizzi, G., Sacchetti, E., Vita, A. (eds) Etiopathogenetic Hypotheses of Schizophrenia. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3207-4_8

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