Association of psychopathological features in schizophrenic patients with individual profile of functional asymmetry

Article is dedicated to search of association between functional asymmetries and psychopathology in schizophrenia. The available data concerning influence of an individual profile of functional asymmetry on clinical features of schizophrenia are not numerous and have often contradictory character. It is supposed that various types of functional asymmetry are associated with the frequency of occurrence of certain psychopathological phenomena. Materials: 46 patients with the diagnosis schizophrenia are examined. For each patient the individual profile of functional asymmetry is formed and the assessment of features of the clinical picture of the disease is carried out. Results: Delusional disorders are more often noted among patients with mainly right and right profile of functional asymmetry. Hallucinatory and catatonic/hebephrenic disorders reliably more often are found in group of patients with symmetric and mainly left profile of functional asymmetry. The polymodality and complexity of hallucinations is more often noted in patients with the leading left eye. Hypomaniacal and maniacal phases arise authentically less often in patients with superiority of lateralization of hearing over hand lateralization. Conclusions: Reliable association between psychopathological features of schizophrenia and individual profile of functional asymmetry is found.