Is There Right Hemisphere Dysfunction in Major Depression?
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Neuroscience
- Vol. 23 (2) , 103-109
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00207458408985351
Abstract
A line-bisection test was applied in order to detect the presence of right hemisphere dysfunction in patients with Major Affective Disorder (Nonpsychotic Major Depression). Depressive patients and control subjects did not differ in perception of the midpoint of the line. Both groups differed in dispersion to the mean value with the depressive patients showing less precision. These data are not supportive of the notion of a right hemisphere dysfunction in the depressive disorder.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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