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. 1986 Feb;49(2):136–139. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.49.2.136

A magnetic resonance study of early schizophrenia.

E C Johnstone, T J Crow, J F Macmillan, D G Owens, G M Bydder, R E Steiner
PMCID: PMC1028678  PMID: 2869111

Abstract

Patients with untreated first schizophrenic episodes and others who had made varying degrees of recovery from such episodes were blindly compared with normal volunteers in terms of the periventricular appearances on spin echo magnetic resonance scans. Significant differences were not found.

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