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Psychological testing in depressive illness: 2. Perceptual functioning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

D. J. De L. Horne  and
J. Gill
D. J. De L. Horne*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J. Gill
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
*
1Address for reprints and correspondence: Dr. D. J. de L. Horne, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3052. Australia.
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Sysnopsis

On the Aubert illusion, involving judgement of visual vertical in the absence of visual field cues, depressed patients were shown to display regressive tendencies compared with controls. In fact, their performance was very similar to that of children. However, their performance at judging postural vertical without the use of visual field cues was normal. The impaired performance of the depressed patients was compared with the deficits observed on the same experimental tasks for various other groups of patients with psychiatric or neurological disorders.

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Preliminary Communication
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , November 1974 , pp. 474 - 477
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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