Volumetric Abnormalities in Violent Schizophrenia Patients on the General Psychiatric Ward.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In recent years, neuroimaging has been used increasingly to explore the biological underpinnings of violence carried out by schizophrenia patients (SPs). Studies have focused mostly on patients with a history of carrying out severe physical assaults, or comorbid with substance abuse/personality disorder (SA/PD). As a result, participants were unrepresentative and the interpretation of brain-structure changes was confusing. Here, we concentrated on SPs on a general psychiatric ward with a history of relatively lower violence, and individuals comorbid with SA or PD were excluded. We expected to identify the characteristics of brain morphometry in this population, and to explore whether the morphometric changes were universal.

Methods

Forty-eight violent schizophreni

SUBMITTER: Liu F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7493665 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature