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Left-handedness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The packet of genetic code that increases the odds of being a southpaw is also linked to certain mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, a new study says. ... For right-handed people, he said, the right side of the brain usually controls emotion, while the left side of the brain tends to control speech and language.
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Some research has suggested that left-handed people die sooner--in one case, several years sooner!--than right-handed ones. Other, larger studies have found very little, if any, difference.
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Wouldn't it be fun to draw a whole bunch of cartoons using your non-dominant hand? ... New studies show: Milk causes cancer! The correlation observed Eighty-seven percent. ... We left a little bit early, and the official website hasn’t been updated yet, so I’m not even sure who the winner was, besides EVERYONE.
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If you are currently involved in research or studies involving left-handedness and would like more detailed information than we have available, you may find the ... Lefties face a daily battle with a world designed for right-handers. Now it seems that left-handed people face a similar struggle in the mental sphere:
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Left-handed and ambidextrous people have 11% larger corpus callosa (the bundle of nerve fibers joining the right and left sides of the brain) than right handed people. ... Studies have shown that ambidextrous people are more emotionally independent, more determined, more adaptable to new situations and more apt to...
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The book for all you lefties out there. Left Is Right ... leftie left to dance in a room overfull of wrong-sided people ... Did you know that there are studies which imply that left-handers don't live as long as right-handers?
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The same chap that identified a region of the brain specialized for language Paul Broca (Paul Broca) also suggested that a person's handedness was opposite from the specialized hemisphere (so a right-handed person probably has a left-hemispheric language specialization).
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"Because left handed people are the only people in their right minds?" ... The predominant left half of the brain, which graciously supplies the right half of the body, theoretically renders it more skillful in reading, writing, speaking, and working, and makes most people right-handed.
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Identical twins have identical genes and, if handedness were wholly genetic, both twins would be either right- or left-handed. But in studies of left-handed twins, ... In the end, no one knows for sure why some people are left-handed and others are right-handed. Maybe if you ask again in 10 years, science will have a...
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