Clinical computed tomographic correlations in children from a group at high risk for schizophrenia
Goriunova, A.V.; Kozlovskaia, G.V.; Kozlova, I.A.; Rimashevskaia, N.V.; Savvateeva, N.I.; Shimonova, G.N.
Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 96(4): 46-50
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 1997-7298 PMID: 9281277 Document Number: 464828
Computed tomography (CT) was performed in 189 individuals: in 44 children of schizophrenic parents (high risk group, HRG), in 39 parents with schizophrenia or with schizophrenic disturbance, in 56 children with schizophrenia, in 50 children with consequences of early organic damages of central nervous system (mental retardation syndrome and generalized tic syndrome). The frequency of CT changes was equal in the mentioned groups but their character was quite different. The widening of brain's liquor system (89.7%), the signs of frontal and temporal atrophia (31%), foci of decreased density of cerebral brain's matter, closer in subcortical ganglia and periventricular zone, and different anomalies of brain were observed in HRG children.