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The British Journal of Psychiatry 159: 435-438 (1991)
© 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Head circumference in elderly long-stay patients with schizophrenia

GH Jones and JE Lewis
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff.

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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