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G D Dawson

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PubMed1989

Interdisciplinary issues in mental health and aging.

An Interdisciplinary Conference on Mental Health and Aging held in Washington, D.C. in May 1986 restimulated the interdisciplinary cooperation generated by the 1980 White House Mini-Conference on the Mental Health of Older Adults and provided a continuing basis for interdisciplinary promotion of coordinated geriatric mental health services. The Conference reflected a wide-spread recognition of the need for interdisciplinary cooperation and the coordination of services for the elderly. The overall organization of the meeting is provided here and articles based on the presentations given by representatives of the four core mental health disciplines follow.

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PubMed1981

Sex differences in dichaptic processing.

The failure to control for variables known to relate to cerebral asymmetries accounts, in part, for inconsistencies in research reporting sex differences in tactuospatial processing. In the present study, a dichaptic task procedure which attempted to minimize response bias was given to 20 males and 20 females at Grades 1, 6, and undergraduate while controlling for handedness, familial sinistrality, verbal ability, and visuospatial performance. Under these controlled conditions, there was a sex difference in tactuospatial functioning. Males performed more accurately than females with the left hand at all grade levels while there was no difference between right-hand performances. Older males performed more accurately over-all than older females. These results support the hypothesis that the males' right hemisphere is more specialized for spatial processing.

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