title: [Clinical manifestations of schizophrenia in right and left-handed patients].
abstract: In a series covering 1177 right-handed and 93 left-handed schizophrenic individuals, the author elicited the age of the patients at the onset of disease and correlated different forms of the disease course. Among the right-handed patients, the disorder was more likely to become manifest at the age of 35 to 44 years and the incidence of the shift-like form was elevated. The left-handed subjects showed an earlier onset of disease (20-24 years) and the prevalence of progressive paranoid schizophrenia. In the author's opinion, the cerebral functional asymmetry related to the type of one's handedness exerts a modifying influence on the course of schizophrenia.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology
vernacular_title: Klinicheskie proiavleniia shizofrenii u pravo- i levorukikh bol'nykh.