Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co.,
1990.
xviii, 574 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm.
Advances in psychology ;
67
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Birth stress and left-handedness -- Nonright-handedness and the continuum of reproductive casualty -- Left-handedness and prenatal complications -- Intrauterine factors in sinistrality -- Laterality in hemiplegic children -- Neuroanatomy of atypical handedness in schizophrenia -- Phenotype in normal left-handers -- Cultural influences on handedness -- Switching hands -- Mental retardation and left-handedness -- Handedness, sex, and spatial ability -- Handedness and its relationship to ability and talent -- Familial sinistrality and cerebral organization -- Sinistrality and psychopathology -- Autism and anomalous handedness -- Left-handedness and alcoholism -- Left-and mixed-handedness and criminality -- Laterality and longevity.