Table 3.
Study | Scanner | No. of Patients | No. of Controls | Stage of Illness at Baseline | Years of Follow-up | Findings |
DeLisi et al. (1991, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2004)44–48 | MRI | 50 | 20 | First-episode schizophrenia | 4–5 | Decreased hemispheric volume bilateral |
26 | 10 | 10 | No change in STG | |||
Gur et al. (1998)62 | MRI | 20 | 17 | First-episode schizophrenia | 2–3 | aFrontal lobe decreased. No change in temporal lobe |
Jacobsen et al. (1998)63 Thompson et al. (2001)64 Keller et al. (2003)65 Sporn et al. (2003)66 | MRI | 16 | 24 | Chronic childhood schizophrenia | 1.5–4 | Decreased hemispheric volume, temporal lobe, STG, hippocampus, thalamus, striatum |
Mathalon et al. (2001)57 | MRI | 24 | 25 | Chronic schizophrenia | 0.7–7.5 | Whole brain gray matter and STG decreased bilaterally |
Puri et al. (2001)67 | ||||||
Wood et al. (2001)68 | MRI | 30 | 26 | First-episode schizophrenia | 0.5–4.2 | Whole brain volume, decreased bilaterally, no change in hippocampus or temporal lobe |
Cahn et al. (2002)59 | MRI | 34 | 36 | First-episode schizophrenia | 1 | bWhole brain gray matter decreased |
Ho et al. (2003)61 | MRI | 73 | 23 | First-episode schizophrenia | 5 | Frontal white matter decreased |
Kasai et al. (2003)69 | MRI | 13 | 14 | First-episode schizophrenia | 1.5 | Decreased left STG and planum temporale |
Lawrie et al. (2002)70, Job et al. (2005)71 | MRI | 19 psychotic at 2 year | 49 non-psychotic at 2 years | Prodromal cases | 2 | cDecr R temporal R/L STG, L cingulate, LR uncinate, L fusiform, L uncus, LR PHG, R amygdala |
Pantelis et al. (2003)72 | MRI | 10 psychotic | 11 non-psychotic | Prodromal cases | 1 | cDecr L PHG, L fusiform, L orbitofrontal, L cerebellum, Cingulate bilateral, L Temporal |
Whitford et al. (2006)73 | MRI | 25 | 26 | First-episode schizophrenia | 2–3 | Gray matter reductions: parietal and temporal |
Note: MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; STG, superior temporal gyrus; R, right; R/L, right and left; PHG, parahippocampal gyrus.
Associated with good outcome.
Associated with poor outcome.
No change in ventricles, unpublished communication.