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R.S. Kahn
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Background: In previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, participants with schizophrenia showed decreased language lateralisation, resulting from increased activation of the right hemisphere compared with controls, Aim: To determine whether decreased laterali
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Background Whole brain tissue volume decreases in schizophrenia have been related to both genetic risk factors and disease-related (possibly nongenetic) factors; however, whether genetic and environmental risk factors in the brains of patients with schizophrenia are differentiall
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Evidence is accumulating that developmental abnormalities, poor neuromotor function, and increased problem behavior precede the manifestation of schizophrenia itself. Information on school performance and behavioral development was obtained for 49 pairs of twins in which at least
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Twin studies are important to investigate genetic influences on variation in human brain morphology in health and disease. However, the twin method has been criticized for its alleged non-generalizability due to differences in the intrauterine and family environment of twins, com
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Patients with schizophrenia show a loss of sensory (motor) gating, which is reflected in a reduced prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the startle reflex. Furthermore, patients with schizophrenia habituate less than healthy subjects. From previous studies, it is clear that typical antip
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Background: The study was designed to examine the relative contributions of genetic and nongenetic factors to structural brain abnormalities in schizophrenia and subjects at risk to develop the disorder. Methods: The brains of 15 monozygotic and 14 samesex dizygotic twins discord
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Both the skin and the brain develop from the same ectoderm and it is thought, therefore, that dermatoglyphics are informative for early disturbances in brain development in schizophrenia. This study was aimed at investigating the differences in both digital and palmar dermatoglyp
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The degree to which individual variation in brain structure in humans is genetically or environmentally determined is as yet not well understood. We studied the brains of 54 monozygotic (33 male, 21 female) and 58 dizygotic (17 male, 20 female, 21 opposite sex) pairs of twins and
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The etiology of schizophrenia has not been elucidated yet. Since the concordance in monozygotic twins (48%) is higher than in dizygotic twins (17%), a genetic component seems to be involved. Family studies in schizophrenia suggest that this genetic component also plays a part in
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