title: Auditory sensitivity in psychiatric patients and non-patients: monotic click detection.
abstract: The sensitivity in detecting a click was measured separately for the right and left ear of psychiatric patients and non-patient controls using a three-interval forced-choice staircase procedure. Patients with affective disorders showed reduced right ear sensitivity, while schizophrenic patients did not show reduced sensitivity. Lower sensitivity correlated with higher structured-interview ratings of speech retardation.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000503:physiopathology; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000503:physiopathology; D014705:Verbal Behavior