Courses of C-line in schizophrenia |
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Authors: | A Bagga |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, University of Poona, 411 007 Poona, (India) |
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Abstract: | The terminations of the Main Line—C on the plams of 390 schizophrenic male patients were analysed and classified into four
modal types according to the direction of their path following Plato's classification (1970). Schizophrenic patients classified
into three major sub-categories namely Paranoid (256 palms) Hebephrenic (256 palms), Catatonic (202 palms) and Undifferentiated
(66 palms), were taken from the same ethnic group from Yerawada Mental Hospital, Pune and Sassoon General Hospital, Pune (India).
Comparisons were made with the respective normal caste control. The frequency of these four model types exhibit strong variations
among themselves and between the patients belonging to the sub-categories of schizophrenia. Considerable increase has been
observed on the Left Palm of the Paranoid and Catatonic patients for the incidence of Radial and Proximal types. The incidence
of Ulnar type showed consistent decrease bilaterally, among all the sub-categories. Absent types showed a steep increase in
all the sub-categories of Schizophrenic. |
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Keywords: | Palmar C-line Schizophrenia Males India |
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