In schizophrenia patients reduced cerebral asymmetry is an important finding and this may reflect a disturbance in cortical development. We investigated planum temporale (PT) volume and asymmetry in 23 first-episode schizophrenia patients compared to healthy controls and found for the first time an in vivo volume asymmetry of PT to the right hemisphere.

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