Lefties are more often schizophrenics

Left-handed people are more likely to develop a variety of mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, than right-handers. This is the conclusion of researchers at the University Medical Center Utrecht.

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Dutch scientists decided to count the number of victims among the various mental disorders lefties   and right-handers. It turned out that left-handed   is 11% in patients suffering from various disorders of mood, and as much as 40% (!) among schizophrenic patients. Given the overall ratio lefthanded   and right-handers in the world, we can conclude that the left-hander was often sick big.

According to experts, the number of left-handers on the planet is about 11%. Consequently, the percentage of the victims of mood disorders does not cause problems, but not so on the incidence of more serious mental illnesses. The researchers studied patients from state mental hospitals are not in the richest and most prestigious suburbs. It was found that left-handedness is significantly increases the risk of severe mental disorders than the skin color, the level of material wealth and other factors. However, the reason for this tendency lefties   mental disease has not been established.

By the way, previously, scientists from the Netherlands also found that left-handed women are more right-handed encounter with breast cancer before menopause. But here at least there is a version that explains this imbalance. As scientists believe, the very left-handedness may be laid in the womb because of the impact on the child excessively high levels of hormones. This subsequently leads to changes in breast tissue.

Finally, other researchers in the past few years have found that left-handed people are more likely to become victims of right-handed dyslexia and anxiety. (READ MORE)

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