ologize for intending to date his girlfriend, even though he never intended to date the girl (Begley, 2002, 48). It may be that neuronal activity in the other direction, from the emotional and memory regions, triggers voices and visions.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have shown that the fluid-filled ventricles in the brains of schizophrenics are larger than those of their non-schizophrenic twins (Hurley, 1994, 60). Postmortem studies of the brains of schizophrenics have shown that neural cells which should have migrated to the higher brain regions of the hippocampus and neocortex in the second trimester of pregnancy never moved out of the lower brain areas such as the white matter of the temporal and frontal lobes. Brain size reductions of up to 19 percent in the temporal lobe region crucial to speech and language has also been found in the brains of schizophrenics with jumbled and disordered thinking (61). The more disordered the thinking in these patients, the smaller the region is.
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