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

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

Neuropsychiatry, neuropsychology, and behavioral neurology - 1 Oct 1998

Leonhard D, Brugger P

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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...

Topics

Adolescent
Adult
Creativity
Delusions
Functional Laterality
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Male
Schizophrenia
Semantics
Visual Perception

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