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Schizophrenia diagnosis associated with progressive brain changes among adolescents

January 3, 2012 by

Adolescents diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses appear to show greater decreases in gray matter volume and increases in cerebrospinal fluid in the frontal lobe compared to healthy adolescents without a diagnosis of psychosis, according to a new report.

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