Correlation of severity of psychiatric patients' delusions with right hemispatial inattention (left-turning behavior)
- 1 February 1993
- journal article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 150 (2) , 330-332
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.150.2.330
Abstract
Studies associate psychotic disorders with various forms of subtle inattention to the right hemispace (left-turning behavior). The authors examined the correlation between this dopamine-related sign and severity of delusions (presumably dopaminergic symptoms) in 20 psychotic patients. Delusions were significantly correlated with severity of left-turning bias, and this neurological sign accounted for 33% of the variance in severity of delusions.Keywords
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