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White matter volume shrinks with advancing schizophrenia. Is the next step becoming one with the universe?

September 8, 2008
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White matter volume shrinks with advancing schizophrenia. Is the next step becoming one with the universe?

Schizophrenia progressively worsens.  According to a new paper, in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, the more cognitive impairment, the less white matter volume.  All patients had about the same amount of gray matter (which was less than controls).  The “near normal” patients had the highest white matter volumes; the most affected had the lowest white matter...

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