Anomalous motoric lateralization and schizophrenia: clinical implications.
Sixty-five schizophrenic subjects (46 men and 19 women) were tested for motor preference and compared to age and sex-matched controls. There were significantly more nondextrals among the schizophrenic women. Both male and female nondextral schizophrenics were hospitalized more frequently and for longer periods than dextral schizophrenics.
Hauser
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Biological Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
Hudson
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Hood
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Seeman
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000503:physiopathology; D012737:Sex Factors