Biological markers and schizophrenia

Abstract

Presently, none of these measures has satisfactory performance characteristics in terms of predictive validity, noninvasiveness, ease of testing and low cost that would enable their widespread use. However, a few have potential for further investigation and development.

An investigation of criteria used to indicate cranial CT in males with schizophrenia

“…One finding was that patients with schizophrenia tended to have larger cerebral ventricles than normal controls. This remains the single most robust finding in the search for a putative lesion or lesions (4). With the advent of computed tomography (CT) in the early 1970s, psychiatric researchers looked to this new technology, enabling high-resolution brain imaging, to provide further insight into schizophrenia (5).…”