Psychosocial problems of patients with bronchial asthma.

The objective of the study was the analysis of psychosocial problems of subjects afflicted with bronchial asthma. The survey comprised a group of 121 patients treated in the Pulmonary Department of Medical University of Lublin. The type and intensity of problems was determined on the basis of Handicap Problems Inventory of Wright and Rommers.

The perception of emotional chimeric faces in schizophrenia: further evidence of right hemisphere dysfunction.

Objective: To examine lateral perceptual bias, an index of right hemisphere function, and its relation to performance on a standard facial perception test and to clinical variables in a large sample of first episode and chronic schizophrenia.

Background: Judgments made on chimeric faces reliably elicit a perceptual bias to the left hemispace, presumed to be a result of right hemisphere dominance for spatial attention. Recent studies have suggested that this bias is reduced or absent in people with schizophrenia.

Perception of facial affect in chronic schizophrenia and right brain damage.

This study was designed to compare the performance of 50 chronic schizophrenics (CS) to that of 30 right brain-damaged patients (R), and 50 healthy controls (N) on several facial perception measures: Emotion Labelling and Recognition, and the Benton Facial Recognition Test. CSs were diagnosed according to DSM-IV criteria and their psychiatric state was assessed using the PANSS scale. All subjects were right handed.