Perceptual asymmetries in schizophrenia: subtype differences in left hemisphere dominance for dichotic fused words.
Am J Psychiatry
; 158(9): 1437-40, 2001 Sep.
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in En
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| ID: mdl-11532728
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Dichotic listening techniques have been used to study hemispheric dominance for language in schizophrenia. The authors' goal was to compare subjects with paranoid and undifferentiated subtypes of schizophrenia.METHOD:
The Fused Rhymed Words Test was used to compare perceptual asymmetries in 16 patients with paranoid schizophrenia, 28 patients with undifferentiated schizophrenia, and 29 healthy comparison subjects.RESULTS:
Patients with paranoid schizophrenia had the largest left hemisphere advantage and patients with undifferentiated schizophrenia had the smallest. The asymmetry of healthy subjects was intermediate. Hemisphere advantage varied as a function of gender only in the patients with undifferentiated schizophrenia.CONCLUSIONS:
The findings support the hypotheses that undifferentiated schizophrenia is associated with underactivation of left hemisphere resources for verbal processing and that paranoid schizophrenia is characterized by preserved left hemisphere processing.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Schizophrenia
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Auditory Perception
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Dichotic Listening Tests
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Dominance, Cerebral
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Am J Psychiatry
Year:
2001
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Estados Unidos