The Focus on Neuroscience box "Schizophrenia: A Wildfire in the Brain," discussed neuroscientist Paul Thompson's research on adolescent brain development. As compared to normal adolescents, adolescents with early-onset schizophrenia:
A) lost a small amount of gray matter (about 1 percent) over the five-year study.
B) lost more than 5 percent of gray matter over the five-year study.
C) experienced a significant enlargement of the frontal lobes and a decrease in the overall volume of the ventricles over the five-year study.
D) showed only about a 2 percent increase in gray matter over the five-year study.
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