People with schizophrenia who have enlarged ventricles: are more likely to be women than men. are less responsive to medication. show an increase in volume of the prefrontal areas of the brain. tend to have milder symptoms than other people with schizophrenia.

People with schizo who have enlarged ventricles are less responsive to medications (as women have been proven less likely to have enlarged ventricles with schizo, volume in the prefrontal areas of the brain actually decreases, and there are much more severe symptoms do to loss of brain matter.)