... suggesting that neurodevelopmental damage is much larger in this group (Hata 21). Another study used magnetic resonance imaging to investigate cerebral volume in patients with childhood-onset schizophrenia and a control group (Keller 128). They found that for patients with childhood-onset schizophrenia, total cerebellar volume decreased as the patients got older, but the same was not true for patients ... in the control group (Keller 131). The same pattern was found when measuring cerebral volume (Keller 131). Several symptoms arise from these early contributors to childhood-onset schizo...

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