Based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans of the brain, it has been theorized that in relation to schizophrenia, schizotypal personality disorder is:
a. the underlying birth onset personality that always accompanies schizophrenia
b. usually a less stable adult onset form of schizophrenia
c. probably a milder form along the schizophrenia continuum
d. not related to schizophrenia except by similarity of name
C
MRI and CT scans have led to theories that schizotypal personality disorder is probably a milder form along the schizophrenia continuum. These scans show important similarities between the two illnesses, as well as several differences. There are abnormalities in the temporal lobe of people with schizophrenia that do not exist in the brains of people with schizotypal personality disorder.
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