Schizophrenia diagnosis associated with progressive brain changes among adolescents
Monday, January 2, 2012 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
Adolescents diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses appear to show greater decreases in gray matter volume and increases in cerebrospinal fluid in the frontal lobe compared to healthy adolescents without a diagnosis of psychosis, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.