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Axelrod, S.,
Noonan, M. & Atanacio, B. On the laterality of psychogenic somatic
symptoms. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1980, 168,
517-525.
Abstract:
Tabulation of cases reported in the literature of unilateral
psychogenic somatic symptoms revealed that more symptoms were on the
left side of the body than on the right; this result, although
falling short of statistical significance, is consistent with recent
reviews of hospital records by Stern and by Galin et al. A review
of organic diseases and traumata for which lateral preferences have
been reported, and a retrospective study of hospital emergency room
records, provided no evidence for the hypothesis that the left-sided
predominance of psychogenic symptoms is underlain by a generalized
greater vulnerability of the left side to organic pathologies. The
status of three other explanations for the asymmetrical incidence of
psychogenic symptoms is discussed.
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