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Asymmetry of Lateralised Hemispheric Functions in Schizophrenia

Influence of Clinical and Epidemiological Characteristics on Quality Extinction Test Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Silvio Scarone ,
Carlo Lorenzo Cazzullo  and
Orsola Gambini
Silvio Scarone*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Milan Medical School
Carlo Lorenzo Cazzullo
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Milan Medical School
Orsola Gambini
Affiliation:
University of Milan Medical School
*
Department of Psychiatry, University of Milan Medical School, Via G. F. Besta 1, Milan, Italy
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The Quality Extinction Test was used to detect lateralised abnormalities of hemispheric functions in schizophrenic patients. Course of illness significantly affected the distribution of tactile extinctions, chronic patients showing more left-side extinctions than sub-chronic ones. Age significantly affected the number of left extinctions, and sex the number of right extinctions. The importance of clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the patients in determining the quality and degree of hemispheric dysfunction in schizophrenia was confirmed.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 151 , Issue 1 , July 1987 , pp. 15 - 17
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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