Abstract
A total of 30 prepubertal children with emotional disorders and 17 normal control children were tested, drug-free, on a monotic click detection task, a dichotic consonant-vowel discrimination task, and a dichotic word task (Staggered Spondaic Word Test). Seventeen children with emotional disorders met adult Research Diagnostic Criteria for major depressive disorders and 13 met DSM-III criteria for nondepressive neurotic disorders. Depressed children did not differ from normal control children in monotic sensitivity, accuracy of dichotic speech perception, or right ear (left hemisphere) advantage. These negative results for depressed children contrast with: (a) poorer monolic sensitivity and dichotic consonant-vowel perception in children with nondepressive neurotic disorders, and (b) prior findings of abnormal auditory sensitivity and dichotic lateralization in depressed adults.
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