Citation

Cleaver RL, Whitman RD. J. Nerv. Ment. Dis. 1998; 186(9): 561-565.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9741562

Abstract

Four hundred and eighty-four adolescents and young adults at an inpatient psychiatric facility were diagnosed as nonverbal learning disabled, verbal learning disabled, general learning disabled, or normal psychiatric controls. The nonverbal learning disabled group had the highest incidence of depression and was clearly different from the reading disabled group (66.3% vs. 33.3%). Nondisabled subjects were significantly more likely than the other subjects to be diagnosed with adjustment problems. Depressed subjects were significantly younger and more likely to be female. This study supports the contention that right-hemisphere, white-matter, arithmetic-disabled adolescents and young adults in a psychiatric population are at greater risk for depression than are psychiatric patients not showing this pattern.

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