• J Magn Reson Imaging · Jan 2010

    Cerebral asymmetry in patients with schizophrenia: a voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) study.

    • Hidemasa Takao, Osamu Abe, Hidenori Yamasue, Shigeki Aoki, Kiyoto Kasai, and Kuni Ohtomo.
    • Department of Radiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. takaoh-tky@umin.ac.jp
    • J Magn Reson Imaging. 2010 Jan 1; 31 (1): 221-6.

    PurposeTo evaluate the differences in gray- and white-matter asymmetry between schizophrenia patients and normal subjects.Materials And MethodsForty-eight right-handed patients with chronic schizophrenia (24 males and 24 females) and 48 right-handed age- and sex-matched healthy controls (24 males and 24 females) were included in this study. The effects of diagnosis on gray-matter volume asymmetry and white-matter fractional anisotropy (FA) asymmetry were evaluated with use of voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and voxel-based analysis of FA maps derived from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), respectively.ResultsThe mean gray- and white-matter volumes were significantly smaller in the schizophrenia group than in the control group. The voxel-based morphometry (VBM) showed no significant effect of diagnosis on gray-matter volume asymmetry. The voxel-based analysis of DTI also showed no significant effect of diagnosis on white-matter FA asymmetry.ConclusionOur results of voxel-based analyses showed no significant differences in either gray-matter volume asymmetry or white-matter FA asymmetry between schizophrenia patients and normal subjects.(c) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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