Am J Psychiatry 1985; 142:731-734
Copyright © 1985 by American Psychiatric Association
Computed tomographic brain scanning in four neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood
DF Harcherik, DJ Cohen, S Ort, R Paul, BA Shaywitz, FR Volkmar, SL Rothman and JF Leckman
CAT scans were performed in 66 patients with neuropsychiatric disorders of
childhood (infantile autism, attention deficit disorder, Tourette's
disorder, and language disorder) and a control group of 20 medical
patients. Ventricular volume and brain density were determined by
quantitative, computer-based methods by researchers blind to the patients'
diagnoses. There were no significant differences among diagnostic groups or
between neuropsychiatric patients and medical control patients in total
ventricular volume, right-left ventricular volume ratio, ventricular
asymmetries, ventricle-brain ratios, or brain density.
