"4033","Is lateral bias anomalous in early-onset schizophrenia? Selected comparisons with normal populations","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.   ","http://cogprints.org/4033/","Collinson, Dr SL and Phillips, Dr TJ and James, Dr AC and Quested, Dr DJ and Crow, Dr TJ","UNSPECIFIED","       <span class=\"person_name\">Collinson, Dr SL</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Phillips, Dr TJ</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">James, Dr AC</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Quested, Dr DJ</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Crow, Dr TJ</span>     (2004)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/4033/\"><em>Is lateral bias anomalous in early-onset schizophrenia? Selected comparisons with normal populations.</em></a>       [Journal (Paginated)]           ","","2004"