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Psychogenic polydipsia MRI

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

Overview

MRI

MRI

These patients, most often chronic schizophrenics with a long history of illness, often exhibit enlarged ventricles and shrunken cortex on MRI, making the physiological mechanism difficult to isolate from the psychogenic.

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