Functional brain organization, handedness, and immune vulnerability in musicians and non-musicians.
In the current investigation an approach has been made to explore possible relations between musical talent, left-handedness, anomalous dominance for verbal materials, and immune vulnerability. Fifty-one young adult musicians and non-musicians were tested with Wing's Standardized Tests of Musical Intelligence, with a handedness questionnaire, a dichotic listening task, and with a questionnaire assessing asthma/allergies, migraine and myopia. In addition, IgE, Ig total, beta-endorphin, testosterone, and estradiol were measured in blood serum. Musical talent was related to left-handedness and to anomalous dominance; immune vulnerability was found in female musicians, and in subjects with reversed dominance for language functions as well as in male left-handers, independently of musical talent.
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, University of Tübingen, Germany.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001076:Aptitude / Q000502:physiology*; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D004958:Estradiol / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D006967:Hypersensitivity / Q000276:immunology*; D007073:Immunoglobulin E / Q000097:blood; D007136:Immunoglobulins / Q000097:blood; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D011598:Psychoneuroimmunology; D012307:Risk Factors; D013739:Testosterone / Q000097:blood; D001615:beta-Endorphin / Q000097:blood
D007136:Immunoglobulins; D007073:Immunoglobulin E; D013739:Testosterone; D004958:Estradiol; D001615:beta-Endorphin