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The Nithsdale Schizophrenia Survey: III. Handedness and Tardive Dyskinesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Robin G. McCreadie ,
John Crorie ,
Elizabeth T. Barron  and
George S. Winslow
George S. Winslow
Affiliation:
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries DG1 4TG, Scotland
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Summary

Handedness was assessed in 87 per cent (n = 116) of all known schizophrenics from a discrete geographical area, Nithsdale in Dumfries and Galloway Region. Seventy-three per cent were right-handed, a proportion greater than that found in a normal population. It was especially Feighner positive schizophrenics and non-in-patients who produced the excess of right-handers. Within the Feighner positive group, 68 per cent of mixed or lefthanders, but only 29 per cent of right-handers, had tardive dyskinesia.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 140 , Issue 6 , June 1982 , pp. 591 - 594
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1982 

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