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 ...

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

Most people identify themselves as either left-handed or right-handed, but scientific evidence suggests that there is a third category for handedness: mixed-handedness. Mixed-handed people do not have ...

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* Atypical hand preference is more frequent in those with neurodevelopmental disorders * Left- or mixed-hand use shows stronger associations in early-onset ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who are "mixed-handed," those who are able to use both hands with equal dexterity, may have harder time having a child than righties or lefties, a new study suggests ...

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,” ...