Schizophrenic patients and their first-degree relatives show an excess of mixed-handedness
| Autor: | Robin M. Murray, Kenneth G. Orr, Mary Cannon, Catherine Gilvarry, Peter B. Jones |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Affective Disorders Psychotic Male medicine.medical_specialty Psychosis Statistics as Topic Neurological disorder Functional Laterality Genetic determinism Nuclear Family Pregnancy Risk Factors medicine Humans Genetic Predisposition to Disease First-degree relatives Psychiatry Biological Psychiatry Cerebral Cortex medicine.disease Pregnancy Complications Psychiatry and Mental health Mood Psychotic Disorders Schizophrenia Case-Control Studies Etiology Female Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Schizophrenia Research. 39:167-176 |
| ISSN: | 0920-9964 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0920-9964(99)00071-7 |
| Popis: | An excess of mixed-handedness in schizophrenia has been reported. However, it is not established whether this excess is manifest in non-schizophrenic psychoses, nor whether the underlying etiology is genetic or environmental. We investigated these issues in a group of patients with schizophrenia (n=94), affective psychosis (n=63), other psychosis (n=26); their respective first-degree relatives (total n=183) and a control group (n=85). A narrow definition of mixed-handedness was used corresponding to groups 5 and 6 as defined by the Annett Handedness Questionnaire. We found an excess of mixed-handedness in the schizophrenic group compared with controls (OR=5.2, 1.4–18.6, p |
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