Interhemispheric disconnection effects in multiple sclerosis.
Patients with multiple sclerosis reported less left ear numbers but more right ear numbers than controls in a dichotic listening test. The multiple sclerosis patients were also relatively impaired on three learning tasks; one of these, a test for paired-associate learning of names and faces, correlated with left ear findings; the results are interpreted as supporting a hypothesised disconnection mechanism.
Lindeboom
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Department of Medical Psychology, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
ter Horst
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D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000503:physiopathology; D004007:Dichotic Listening Tests; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning / Q000502:physiology; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000503:physiopathology