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Size of Cerebral Ventricles in 66 Psychiatric Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

P. Van Boxel ,
P. K. Bridges ,
J. R. Bartlett  and
T. Trauer
P. Van Boxel
Affiliation:
The Geoffrey Knight Psychosurgical Unit, Regional Neurosurgical Centre, Brook General Hospital, Shooter's Hill Road, London SE18 4LW
P. K. Bridges
Affiliation:
The Geoffrey Knight Psychosurgical Unit, Regional Neurosurgical Centre, Brook General Hospital, Shooter's Hill Road, London SE18 4LW
J. R. Bartlett
Affiliation:
The Geoffrey Knight Psychosurgical Unit, Regional Neurosurgical Centre, Brook General Hospital, Shooter's Hill Road, London SE18 4LW
T. Trauer
Affiliation:
York Clinic, Guy's Hospital, London SE1 1NR
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Summary

The routine air ventriculograms of 66 psychiatric patients, aged from 22 to 73 years, taken during the psychosurgical operation of stereotactic subcaudate tractotomy, were studied. Ventricular size was unrelated to progressive ageing, but a minority of patients over 60 years had abnormally large ventricles, not invariably associated with cognitive impairment on testing. Enlargement was associated with a clinical diagnosis of schizoaffective illness but not with past ECT.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 133 , Issue 6 , December 1978 , pp. 500 - 506
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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