Computer software that maps the three dimensions of the brain has found that people with schizophrenia have deep grooves and small volumes in brain areas associated with planning and executive control.
The volume measurements of some areas seem to depend on the depth of nearby grooves. This unexpected finding could help explain the mixed results of previous studies measuring structural brain differences in people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric diseases, according to unpublished data presented today at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago.
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