A WAIS index intended to assess left- vs right-sided brain integrity for 52 female and 113 male patients was not significantly related to an MMPI index intended to assess thinking vs affective disorders. Thus, our hypothesis based upon the premise that thought disorders tend to be associated with left-sided inferiority and affective disorders with right-sided inferiority was not borne out.
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