Mania and nondominant hemisphere function

Journal/Book: Percept Mot Skills. 1989; 69: 975-8.

Abstract: Unlike schizophrenics, actively disturbed manic and hypomanic patients perceived intensely affective musical stimuli without configurational errors or exacerbation of symptoms. The result disagrees with the prevailing hypothesis of manic affect-related cognitive defect in nondominant hemisphere function.

Keyword(s): Adolescence ; Adult ; Middle Age; Schizophrenic Psychology Dominance, Cerebral; Manic Disorder psychology; Music ; Perceptual Distortion Female; Human; Male

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