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Dichotic Perception: Evidence for Right Hemisphere Dysfunction in Affective Psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Allan Yozawitz ,
Gerard Bruder ,
Samuel Sutton ,
Lawrence Sharpe ,
Barry Gurland ,
Joseph Fleiss  and
Louis Costa
Allan Yozawitz
Affiliation:
Department of Psychophysiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168 Street, New York, N.Y. 10032
Gerard Bruder
Affiliation:
Department of Psychophysiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168 Street, New York, N.Y. 10032
Samuel Sutton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychophysiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168 Street, New York, N.Y. 10032
Lawrence Sharpe
Affiliation:
Biometrics Research Department, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168 Street, New York, N.Y. 10032
Barry Gurland
Affiliation:
Department of Geriatrics Research, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168 Street, New York, N.Y. 10032
Joseph Fleiss
Affiliation:
Biometrics Research Department, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168 Street, New York, N.Y. 10032
Louis Costa
Affiliation:
City College of the City University of New York
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Summary

The association between lateralized hemispheric dysfunction and psychiatric diagnosis was investigated with a measure of summation of dichotic clicks and with a dichotic competing message task. Ear asymmetries of affective psychotic patients were similar to those of right temporal lesioned controls and differed from those of schizophrenic patients and normal controls. In contrast, schizophrenic patients did not display abnormal auditory perceptual asymmetries.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 135 , Issue 3 , September 1979 , pp. 224 - 237
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1979 

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