Letter/Communication
Ventricular Enlargement in Schizophrenia: Is There Really a Gender Effect?-Reply
Archives of general psychiatry, Vol.49(12), pp.996-997
12/01/1992
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1992.01820120084013
Abstract
Zigun et al have raised sev- eral issues concerning our article. Their major concerns appear to be the following: (1) the control group may be atypical; and (2) they take exception to a statement attributed to us that "given the phenomenological differences in the manifestations of schizophrenia between men and women, the reported gender differences in ventricular enlargement may be due to different types of illness or different etiologic factors."Zigun et al do not accurately summarize the contents or conclusions of our article, since many of the issues raised in their letter were already discussed in the article, while the phenomenology of schizophrenia in relation to gender differences was not discussed at all. AN ATYPICAL CONTROL GROUP-— To our knowledge, this study reports on one of the largest samples of carefully screened healthy normal volunteers that has been studied with computed tomography (CT). The total sample size of the
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Ventricular Enlargement in Schizophrenia: Is There Really a Gender Effect?-Reply
- Creators
- NANCY C ANDREASENVICTOR W SWAYZEMICHAEL FLAUMWILLIAM R YATESSTEPHAN ARNDTCHERYL MCCHESNEY
- Resource Type
- Letter/Communication
- Publication Details
- Archives of general psychiatry, Vol.49(12), pp.996-997
- DOI
- 10.1001/archpsyc.1992.01820120084013
- NLM abbreviation
- Arch Gen Psychiatry
- ISSN
- 0003-990X
- eISSN
- 1538-3636
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/1992
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Biostatistics; Nursing; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984068229402771
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