title: On the probability of pathological right-handedness.
abstract: The increased incidence of manifest left-handedness in retardates and epileptics has been attributed to a shift in handedness following early brain injury. Predictive models using this hypothesis have presumed an equipotentiality for shifts in hemispheric dominance whether a left or a right hemisphere is the originally dominant, injured hemisphere. This note demonstrates that the presumption of equipotentiality may be relaxed without significant effect upon the conclusions reached using the predictive models.
authors.affiliation: Division of Engineering, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Tenessee 37401, USA.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Schonblom
mesh_terms: D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D038421:Hemispherectomy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology