If patients with schizophrenia have small brains, why don't they have small heads?

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-6

  Friedman, Lee ^a   Wiechers, Ilse R ^a   Cerny, Cathleen A ^a   Schulz, S Charles ^a   Buckley, Peter ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ODMH Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial capacity; Head size; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEPHALOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SKULL;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BRAIN; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0034005127     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-9964(99)00098-5     Document Type: Article

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