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Head Circumference in Elderly Long-Stay Patients with Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gareth H. Jones  and
John E. Lewis
Gareth H. Jones*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff CF4 7XB
John E. Lewis
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff CF4 7XB
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

The head circumference of a long-stay population with schizophrenia was compared with that of a population with dementia, matched for sex and year of birth. Schizophrenics had a smaller head circumference, even after correction for height and weight. This confirms earlier but inconclusive and controversial reports, and might be taken as supporting a neurodevelopmental hypothesis of the aetiology of schizophrenia.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue 3 , September 1991 , pp. 435 - 438
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Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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