Increased ventricle-to-brain ratio in late-onset schizophrenia

Am J Psychiatry. 1987 Sep;144(9):1216-8. doi: 10.1176/ajp.144.9.1216.

Abstract

For 29 patients with schizophrenia that began after age 44, the mean ventricle-to-brain ratio was significantly higher than for 23 age-matched normal subjects but significantly smaller than for 23 patients with Alzheimer's disease and hallucinations or delusions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Age Factors
  • Aged
  • Alzheimer Disease / diagnosis
  • Brain / anatomy & histology*
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Cerebral Ventricles / anatomy & histology*
  • Delusions / diagnosis
  • Female
  • Hallucinations / diagnosis
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Schizophrenia / diagnosis*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed