NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who don't show a hand preference are more likely than their righty or lefty peers to perform poorly in school, a new study in the journal Pediatrics shows. And ...

Left-handedness and certain neurological disorders could go hand-in-hand, a new study revealed, though the researchers and others acknowledged potential limitations. While about 10% of people in the ...

The fact that left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness are strikingly common in patients with certain neurological disorders such as autism spectrum disorders is a frequently reported observation in ...

Linguistic symptoms and an onset early in life: Disorders to which this applies are frequently associated with left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness. The fact that left-handedness resp.

Globally, 10.6 percent of people are left-handers, while the remaining 89.4 percent are right-handers (Papadatou-Pastou et al., 2020). While it is known that handedness is influenced by both genetic ...

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One of the most common stereotypes about left-handers in industrialized Western societies like the United States is that they may be more creative and artistic than right-handers. Since this ...

The research team re-evaluated existing meta-analyses from a new perspective. “We suspected that left- and mixed- handedness could be associated with disorders whose symptoms are related to language,” ...