Maternal–fetal blood incompatibility and neuromorphologic anomalies in schizophrenia: Preliminary findings

Minor Physical Anomalies in Schizophrenia

Minor Physical Anomalies have been described as a slight deviation in appearances from essential physical characteristics. Presence of multiple anomalies suggests a developmental deviation of ectodermal structures developing in the first trimester, also the time of development of the brain. Presence of minor physical anomalies in Schizophrenia have been investigated in this study and the incide...

Minor Physical Anomalies and Chromosomal Fragility as Potential Markers in Schizophrenia. Preliminary Report

In the present study, the authors investigated chromosomal fragility in patients with schizophrenia, and compared the patients, who were positive for minor physical anomalies (MPAs) with those who were negative for MPAs in respect to chromosome fragility. 44 patients with schizophrenia were examined and compared to 23 matched healthy controls. A modified Waldrop-scale was used for evaluation of...

Minor physical anomalies in schizophrenia.

This study was conducted to investigate the value of using physical anomalies (PAs) to evaluate early prenatal injury in schizophrenia. PAs are minor abnormalities in development of the head, hands, and feet that are presumably associated with insult during the first trimester. Sixty-seven schizophrenic inpatients and 88 normal controls were evaluated for PAs. The schizophrenic patients showed ...

Preliminary Findings and Recommendations

Structural abnormalities of subicular dendrites in subjects with schizophrenia and mood disorders: preliminary findings.

BACKGROUND Postmortem studies of the subiculum from subjects with schizophrenia have detected smaller pyramidal cell bodies and diminished immunoreactivity for the dendritic protein, microtubule-associated protein 2. While these findings suggest that subicular pyramidal cell dendrites may be structurally altered in subjects with schizophrenia, this possibility had not been tested directly. ME...