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Body Image Disorders: Comparison between Unilateral Hemisphere Damage and Schizophrenia

Author(s) -

John Cutting

Publication year - 1989

Publication title -

behavioural neurology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.859

H-Index - 48

eISSN - 1875-8584

pISSN - 0953-4180

DOI - 10.1155/1989/717519

Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , right hemisphere , lateralization of brain function , psychology , audiology , brain damage , medicine , psychiatry , neuroscience

The records of a consecutive series of 100 schizophrenics were examined for any mention of body image disorders. These were present in 45 patients, the most common varieties being anomalous bodily experiences. The pattern of these was then compared with the sorts of body image disorders which occur in patients with left hemisphere lesions and in those with right hemisphere lesions. Schizophrenic body image disorders resembled those seen with right-sided lesions much more than they did those occurring following left-sided damage. This result is discussed in relationship to theories of hemisphere imbalance in schizophrenia.

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