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Schizophrenia afflicts approximately 1 percent of the population, yet little is known about what causes the disease or how it affects brain tissue. To gain a better understanding of the disorder, researchers at the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging and the National Institute of Mental Health use visualization technology, through which they have been able to identify patterns of brain tissue destruction. This image reveals the 3D profile of brain tissue loss in a population of teenagers with schizophrenia. To view the brain changes relative to disease progression, researchers averaged information from a database of brain scans acquired over time of patients in the target population. The collective image data was processed in parallel using custom software running on a SGI Reality Monster ...