title: Is lateral bias anomalous in early-onset schizophrenia? Selected comparisons with normal populations
creator: Collinson, Dr SL
creator: Phillips, Dr TJ
creator: James, Dr AC
creator: Quested, Dr DJ
creator: Crow, Dr TJ
subject: Computational Neuroscience
description: The aim of this study was to investigate lateral bias in patients with early-onset schizophrenia. Hand, eye, and foot preferences and relative hand skill were examined in early-onset patients (n=44) and matched controls (n=39), and were compared with population estimates. Patients demonstrated a significant excess in mixed handedness (20.5% vs. 8.5%) relative to population estimates and reduced relative hand skill on a pegboard task compared with controls. Left eye preference was significantly less common in schizophrenic patients relative to population estimates. Crossed eye-hand and eye-foot preferences were not significantly increased in the patient group as a whole but were present, respectively, in four of nine and five of nine mixed-handed patients but in none of five mixed-handed controls. These findings are consistent with the view that lateralisation is anomalous in schizophrenia early in the course of illness.   
publisher: Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
date: 2004
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/4033/1/Collinsonsdarticle.pdf
identifier:   Collinson, Dr SL and Phillips, Dr TJ and James, Dr AC and Quested, Dr DJ and Crow, Dr TJ  (2004) Is lateral bias anomalous in early-onset schizophrenia? Selected comparisons with normal populations.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/4033/