title: Pathologic left-handedness: does it exist?
abstract: The concept of pathologic left-handedness is reviewed, both from a historical and an empirical point of view. It is suggested that there is no adequate evidence to justify its continued use. The fact that the concept is still much used may be the result of a desire to restore to the brain its lost symmetry, by allowing Dax's Law once more to be true.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000381:Agraphia / Q000175:diagnosis; D001037:Aphasia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis