Wechsler Performance IQ Deficit in Depressed Children
- 1 August 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 61 (1) , 331-335
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1985.61.1.331
Abstract
The original analysis of data on 100 consecutive school age children referred for evaluation of school difficulties showed no differences in IQ among the children with depression and those without depression. Reanalysis of those data shows that a significant number of the depressed children (but not the nondepressed children) have a 15-IQ point Wechsler Performance IQ deficit. This supports the contention that a major subgroup of depressed individuals have right cerebral-hemisphere dysfunction.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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