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Treball Final de Grau en Psicologia. Codi: PS1048. Curs: 2018/2019. Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder, which can cause brain and functional abnormalities. This pathology affects 1% of the world population. Several studies have been interested in studying the changes that occur due to this pathology through voxel-based morphometry (VBM), where the brains of schizophrenic subjects are compared with controls. Some of the changes that have been observed are reductions in gray matter volume in subjects with schizophrenia in the thalamus, insula, left medial frontal rotation, superior temporal gyrus, superior left frontal rotation, rectilinear, anterior cingulate, left supplementary motor area , right opercular, amygdala, hippocampus and putamen. The aim of this study is to perform a meta-analysis to find reductions in the volume of gray matter in schizophrenic patients compared to controls. For the selection of the articles that are used the Ginger Detector, selecting 12 studies of the 70 that offered us the program, incorporating data of 371 patients with schizophrenia and 301 healthy subjects. As for the analysis, the ginger Ale was applied applying a value p |
