Altered cerebral dominance in an atopic population
| Autor: | David R. Pieper, Robert E. Weinstein |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Hypersensitivity Immediate Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Allergy Neuroimmunomodulation Immunology Atopic disease Population Functional Laterality Behavioral Neuroscience Sex Factors medicine Humans Child education Health screening Asthma Dominance (genetics) education.field_of_study Office practice Endocrine and Autonomic Systems business.industry Age Factors Middle Aged medicine.disease Laterality Female business |
| Zdroj: | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. 2:235-241 |
| ISSN: | 0889-1591 |
| Popis: | Handedness was assessed in 853 subjects, 424 from an allergy office practice and 429 from a health screening clinic, using a modified Oldfield Handedness Inventory. Subjects also responded to a survey ascertaining both personal and family histories of allergy-related problems and left-handedness. A significant left-handed shift in mean laterality quotient and an increased incidence of left-handedness was found in participants from the allergy office and in subjects who considered themselves to be affected by allergy, allergic rhinitis, and/or asthma. Controlling for nonatopic responders from the allergy office and possibly atopic responders from the health screening clinic, mean laterality quotients were 66.4 +/- 51.6 vs 79.4 +/- 42.1 (p less than .001) and the incidence of left-handedness was 12.1% vs 6.8% (p less than .05). Mean laterality quotient of 125 asthmatics was 65.1 +/- 54.0, and 16 (12.8%) were left-handed. The mean percentage of left-handed children of 79 asthmatic parents was found to be increased: 16.7 +/- 26.3% vs 10.3 +/- 21.2% of children of 198 nonatopic parents (p less than .02). This was attributable to left-handed children of asthmatic women, 18.6 +/- 29.0% (p less than .01), but not asthmatic men. Both autonomic neurologic dysfunction and disordered immunoregulation typify atopic disease. Our results can be interpreted to reflect this duality and lend support to Geshwind's hypothesis of a relationship between cerebral dominance and immunologic set resulting from common developmental influences. |
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