Occipital bending in schizophrenia

Jerome Joseph Maller; Rodney Jarrod Anderson; Richard Hilton Siddall Thomson; Zafiris Daskalakis; Jeffrey Victor Rosenfeld; Paul Bernard Fitzgerald

doi:10.1177/0004867416642023

Occipital bending in schizophrenia

Jerome Joseph Maller, Rodney Jarrod Anderson, Richard Hilton Siddall Thomson, Zafiris Daskalakis, Jeffrey Victor Rosenfeld, Paul Bernard Fitzgerald

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence of occipital bending (an occipital lobe crossing or twisting across the midline) in subjects with schizophrenia and matched healthy controls.

METHOD: Occipital bending prevalence was investigated in 37 patients with schizophrenia and 44 healthy controls.

RESULTS: Ratings showed that prevalence was nearly three times higher among schizophrenia patients (13/37 [35.1%]) than in control subjects (6/44 [13.6%]). Furthermore, those with schizophrenia had greater normalized gray matter volume but less white matter volume and had larger brain-to-cranial ratio.

CONCLUSION: The results suggest that occipital bending is more prevalent among schizophrenia patients than healthy subjects and that schizophrenia patients have different gray matter-white matter proportions. Although the cause and clinical ramifications of occipital bending are unclear, the results infer that occipital bending may be a marker of psychiatric illness.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	32-41
Number of pages	10
Journal	Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
Volume	51
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0004867416642023
Publication status	Published - Jan 2017

Keywords

Occipital
bending
schizophrenia
magnetic resonance imaging

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