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Article: Inside the Schizophrenic Brain; Researchers Identify Differences in Structure and Activity
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- The Washington Post
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- December 13, 1988
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Scientists are finding increasingly that the brains of people
with schizophrenia are dramatically different from those of other
people.
New research has shown that in many cases:
Portions of the brains of schizophrenics-the temporal lobes-are
smaller than those of healthy people.
Blood flow patterns differ as well.
The part of the brain responsible for reasoning and following
rules-the frontal lobe-is less active.
The research, presented at a recent conference at Sheppard and
Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, does not explain the cause of
schizophrenia, but it does give strong evidence to the notion that
this illness reflects some radical failure in the brain.
For years, scientists ...