Changes in blood supply / glucose metabolism in various syndromes associated with schizophrenia

(Adapted from lecture notes for the MRCPsych.) 

Psychomotor poverty syndrome

Decreased left dorsal prefrontal cortex

Decreased medial prefrontal cortex

Decreased anterior cingulated gyrus

Increased head of caudate

Disorganised syndrome

Decreased right ventral prefrontal cortex

Increased anterior cingulated

Increased dorsomedial thalamus

Decreased Brocas area

Decreased bilateral parietal association areas

Reality distortion syndrome

Increased left parahippocampal region

Increased left striatum