Family load impacts orbitofrontal volume in first-episode schizophrenia.

Psychiatry Res

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Georg-August-University Goettingen, von-Siebold-Straße 5, 37075 Göttingen, Germany; Centre of Mental Health, County Hospitals Darmstadt-Dieburg, Krankenhausstraße 7, 64823 Groß-Umstadt, Germany.

Published: April 2015

In schizophrenia, reduced orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) volume is inconsistently reported. To investigate the impact of genetic load on OFC volume, manual MRI-tracing in 23 first-episode schizophrenia patients (FE-SZ) and 23 controls was performed. FE-SZ with genetic load showed a decrease in OFC volume compared to FE-SZ without load and controls.

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