Absence of regional hemispheric volume asymmetries in first-episode schizophrenia

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OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to determine whether patients experiencing their first episode of schizophrenia differ from healthy subjects in regional cerebral hemispheric volumes or asymmetries. METHOD: Regional volumes corresponding to prefrontal, premotor, sensorimotor, occipitoparietal, and temporal lobes in each hemisphere were measured on contiguous coronal magnetic resonance images in 70 patients experiencing their first episode of schizophrenia and in 51 healthy comparison subjects. RESULTS: Patients did not differ from the comparison subjects in regional or total hemispheric volumes, but they had abnormal hemispheric asymmetries. Subjects in the comparison group had significant lateral asymmetries in each region: their occipitoparietal and sensorimotor regions were larger on the left, and their premotor, prefrontal, and temporal regions were larger on the right. Patients lacked lateral asymmetries and showed significantly less asymmetry than healthy subjects in occipitoparietal, premotor,...

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