ABSTRACT
Psychiatrist Flor-Henry was one of the first to associate schizophrenia with a left-hemispheric disturbance. One interesting physiological difference was that some chronic schizophrenics exhibited a significant increase in the size of their corpus callosum, compared with normals that were examined upon postmortem. A disorder related to schizophrenia is childhood autism, in which linguistic impairment and social withdrawal are the primary symptoms. The strongest evidence for this theory comes from tests assessing alcoholics' visuospatial abilities. Developmental dyslexia traditionally has been defined as a reading disability with some accompanying form of central nervous system dysfunction. One final characteristic of the NPOOD syndrome is the differential incidences between the genders. Dyscalculia is one such disorder that has been tied directly to deficiencies in visual-spatial organization and nonverbal integration.
