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Structural Lesions of the Brain in Young Schizophrenics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

P. Averback
P. Averback*
Affiliation:
the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge
*
Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, U.K. CB2 1QP
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Swollen, degenerate and fragmented neurons of the septal nuclei and the nucleus ansae peduncularis are commonly found in chronic neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Huntington’s disease, and are rarely found in neurologically normal control patients without mental symptoms. These pathological lipid and pigment laden neurons appear to be a common feature of schizophrenia and have been consistently found in a series of unselected young (mean age 38) schizophrenics.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , February 1981 , pp. 73 - 76
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1981

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