Abstract #1963

Structural Brain Deterioration in the Course of Schizophrenia

Akiko Uematsu^1,2, Hidenori Yamasue³, Kiyoto Kasai⁴, and Shinsuke Koike^4,5

¹Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ²RIKEN CBS, Saitama, Japan, ³Departmentof Psychiatry, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, ⁴The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

In this study, we examined structural brain deterioration in the course of schizophrenia with multi aspects by utilizing a variety of information derived from multi-contrast MRI data. Our findings suggested superior temporal gyrus is the key to understand the onset mechanism of Schizophrenia.

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