| A neuropsychological study of the stable syndrome of hysteria. | |
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PMID: 7272378 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Ten patients with the stable syndrome of hysteria were matched for age, sex, handedness, and full-scale WAIS IQ with ten controls, ten psychotic depressives and ten schizophrenics. All were subjected to an extensive neuropsychological test battery. Compared to the controls, the hysteria group exhibited bifrontal impairment (R = L) and, globally, greater dysfunction of the nondominant hemisphere. A G analysis provided a complete separation between the hysteria and controls. However, a D-index analysis showed that the hysteria group was more impaired than normals and depressives because of greater dysfunction of the dominant hemisphere, whilst schizophrenia showed greater nondominant hemisphere dysfunction than hysteria. Further, a cluster analysis on the 40 subjects produced three clusters: normal controls, depressives, and a schizophrenia-hysteria grouping. These findings are interpreted as suggesting that dominant hemisphere dysfunction is fundamentally related to the syndrome of hysteria and that the dysfunction of the nondominant hemisphere is brought about by associated features: the female excess, the emotional instability and dysphoric mood, the presence of asymmetrical pain, and conversion symptomatology. It is further argued, in view of the familial associations, that hysteria in the female is a syndrome equivalent to psychopathy in the male (who also exhibits dominant hemisphere dysfunction) and might represent in the female a (relatively benign) variant of schizophrenia characterized by imprecise verbal communications, a subtle form of affective incongruity, together with the conversion parameter. |
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P Flor-Henry; D Fromm-Auch; M Tapper; D Schopflocher |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Biological psychiatry Volume: 16 ISSN: 0006-3223 ISO Abbreviation: Biol. Psychiatry Publication Date: 1981 Jul |
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Created Date: 1981-11-22 Completed Date: 1981-11-22 Revised Date: 2004-11-17 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0213264 Medline TA: Biol Psychiatry Country: UNITED STATES |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 601-26 Citation Subset: IM |
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Adult Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders / psychology* Depressive Disorder / psychology Dominance, Cerebral Female Humans Hysteria / psychology* Male Psychological Tests Schizophrenic Psychology |
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