Hemispheric asymmetries and schizophrenia

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Abstract
Investigators have hypothesized that schizophrenic patients have abnormal left hemisphere function or deviations from normal functional asymmetry. It has also been suggested that schizophrenic patients have reversals of normal structural asymmetries. Frontal and occipital petalia and frontal and occipital width of each hemisphere were measured on the CT (computed tomographic) scans of 43 right-handed schizophrenic patients and 40 right-handed control subjects. There were no significant differences in structural asymmetry between the groups. The 8 left-handed schizophrenic patients may have had abnormal functional asymmetries; their mean ventricular-brain ratio, a possible indirect indicator of cerebral atrophy, was higher than that of the right-handed patients.