Head circumference in elderly long-stay patients with schizophrenia.
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The head circumference of a long-stay population with schizophrenia was compared with that of a population with dementia, matched for sex and year of birth. Schizophrenics had a smaller head circumference, even after correction for height and weight. This confirms earlier but inconclusive and controversial reports, and might be taken as supporting a neurodevelopmental hypothesis of the aetiology of schizophrenia.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
دوره 159 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1991