Adolescent Schizophrenia Linked to Progressive Brain Changes

Adolescents who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses seem to show greater decreases in gray matter volume and increases in cerebrospinal fluid in the frontal lobe versus healthy adolescents without a diagnosis of psychosis, reports an article in the January 2012 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA/Archives journal.

“Progressive loss of brain gray matter (GM) has been reported in childhood-onset schizophrenia,” write the authors. “However, it is uncertain whether these changes are shared by pediatric patients with different psychoses.” For more information, click here to read the full release