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The Role of Right Hemisphere Dysfunction in Psychiatric Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Cutting
John Cutting*
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The Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3BX
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In 1861 Broca, a Parisian surgeon, reported a postmortem he had carried out on a man who had lost his ability to speak 20 years previously and who in the intervening period had only regained the use of one phrase: “Tan-tan”. Broca found that this man had an old infarct in his left hemisphere, affecting the posterior portions of the second and third frontal gyri.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 160 , Issue 5 , May 1992 , pp. 583 - 588
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992 

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