%A Dr SL Collinson %A Dr TJ Phillips %A Dr AC James %A Dr DJ Quested %A Dr TJ Crow %J Psychiatry Research %T Is lateral bias anomalous in early-onset schizophrenia? Selected comparisons with normal populations %X 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. %K Laterality; Schizophrenia; Handedness; Eye preference; Foot preference %P 219-224 %V 125 %D 2004 %I Elsevier Ireland Ltd. %L cogprints4033