HAND PREFERENCE AND DIAGNOSIS IN MAJOR MENTAL ILLNESS.

Autor: Mirabile Jr., Charles S., Teicher, Martin H.
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Zdroj: Perceptual & Motor Skills; Dec2002, Vol. 95 Issue 3, p875, 2p
Abstrakt: A sample of 1,671 patients in a long-term psychiatric inpatient hospital were polled for hand preference in writing. Nonright-handers (n = 420) were more often diagnosed schizophrenic than Right-handers (n = 1,251), but the overall proportion of psychotic illness was the same in both handedness groups, suggesting the possibility that nonright-handedness may be associated with a change in the expression of psychotic illness so it is somewhat more likely to be manifest as thought disorder than mood disorder. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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