THE VENTRICULAR-BRAIN RATIO (VBR) IN FUNCTIONAL PSYCHOSES - THE RELATIONSHIP OF LATERAL VENTRICULAR AND TOTAL INTRACRANIAL AREA

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HARVEY, I [1 ]
WILLIAMS, M [1 ]
TOONE, BK [1 ]
LEWIS, SW [1 ]
TURNER, SW [1 ]
MCGUFFIN, P [1 ]
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[1] UNIV LONDON KINGS COLL HOSP,DEPT PSYCHOL MED,LONDON SE5 8RX,ENGLAND
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10.1017/S0033291700013222
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B849 [应用心理学];
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CT scans were performed on 72 consecutive patients with a functional psychosis, and compared with 50 community controls. There was a specific difference in lateral ventricular area between these two groups but it accounted for only 11 % of the variance in this measure. In contrast, racial and sexual differences in the ventricular-brain ratio (VBR) related to differences in intracranial area. It is argued that analysis of variance, using lateral ventricular area and intra-cranial area, is more informative than VBR in examining these structural changes in functional psychoses. © 1990, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.
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