Cerebral perfusion changes in untreated schizophrenic patients: A CASL-study at 3 Tesla
L Scheef, C Manka, MW Landsberg, F Jessen · RöFo - Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Röntgenstrahlen und der bildgebenden Verfahren · 2006 · Heft 07
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Purpose: Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder with a usual onset in early adulthood. It is characterized by positive symptoms, including delusion, hallucination and thought disorder, and negative symptoms, like lack of initiative and affective flattening and cognitive disturbances, including impairment of attention and memory. Even though the etiology of the disorder is still not fully understood, numerous studies have identified a number of features which distinguish brains of schizophrenic patients from brains of healthy controls. Neuropathological and structural brain imaging studies have reported morph…
