A Clinical Study on Relationship between Intelligence Impairment and Brain Atrophy in Schixophrenia
Abstract：Objective To explore the relationship between intelligence impairment and brain atro-phy in schixophrenia. Methods 34 cases with schizophrenia were tested intelligence with WAIS-RC andwere examined brain CT. Then, according to CT results, all the subjects were classified into two grups-the brain atrophy group with 28 patients (about 82%) and the non-brain atrophy group with 6 cases(about 18%). The intelligence of the two groups were compared with each other with the control ofnorms. At the same time, the conditions of brain atrophy in different levels were analyzed. Results Thebrain atrophy group showed obviously more intelligence impairment. The lower the intelligent level was ,the higher the incidence of brain atrophy showed, and the severer and broader the brain atrophy was suchas ventricle broadenness, fissure widenness, sulci deeepenness, even the whole brain atrophy.Conclusions There was close relationship between intelligence impairment and brain atrophy in schixo-phrenia. This suggested that the schizophrenics with intelligence impairment existed the basis of brainorganic impairment.
Keywords：Schizophrenia Intelligence Brain atrophy
Publication Date：2003-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：2( 440-441 )