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Do patients with severe affective disorder show abnormalities of brain structure on pneumo-encephalography and CT scans compared to normal measures?
Do patients with severe affective disorder show abnormalities of brain structure on pneumo-encephalography and CT scans compared to normal measures?
Severe affective disorder is associated with structural brain abnormalities, specifically ventricular enlargement.
Ventricular enlargement may mark severe affective illness; cross-sectional data leave open causality and preclude practice change.
Summary The pneumo-encephalographs and computerized axial tomography scans of fifty patients with severe affective disorder were studied. Measures of ventricular size were compared with those reported by other workers. Findings suggested that some patients suffering from severe affective illness showed abnormalities of brain structure as demonstrated by ventricular enlargement.
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