title: [Finger spreading as an indicator of psychomotor activity and laterality].
abstract: In 23 healthy right- and left-handers and in 8 psychotic patients the angels between fingers were measured after maximal spreading. It can be demonstrated, that there are differences in spreading out between right- and lefthanders. The dominance of the right hand in right-handers is fluctuating. In depressiv psychotics and patients after schizophrenia we found decrease of spreading out. The laterality imbalance in psychoses we interprete as a sign of hemispherial dysfunktion.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D010243:Paralysis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011596:Psychomotor Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Fingerspreizen als Indikator psychomotorischer Aktivität und Lateralität.