Creative, paranormal, and delusional thought: A consequence of right hemisphere semantic activation?

Author(s): Leonhard, D., Brugger, P.

Journal/Book: Neuropsychiat Neuropsych Behavior Neurolog. 1998; 11(4): 177-183.

Abstract: Objective: There is a rapidly growing body of evidence for an association between schizophrenic syndromes and the absence of a clear pattern of hemispheric dominance for language. Independent work with healthy subjects suggests that one feature of right hemispheric (RH) linguistic processing is a coarse as opposed to a focused semantic activation, We provide a comprehensive review of the literature to these hitherto unrelated fields of research and present nstitute a selective evolutionary advantage allowing the genes predisposing to schizophrenia to proliferate despite the obvious disadvantages of this devastating disease.

Keyword(s): paranormal.

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