NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who don't show a hand preference are more likely than their righty or lefty peers to perform poorly in school, a new study in the journal Pediatrics shows. And ...

When most people think about handedness, they have two different forms in mind: Left-handedness and right-handedness. Overall, studies that investigated how many people are left-handed and ...

The term “handedness” refers to the tendency to use one hand over the other, such as left-handedness or right-handedness. It’s also known as hand preference. So, if you naturally use your right hand ...

Most of us are firmly righty or lefty. We have the go-to hand we favor for just about everything, and we have the hand that’s … less useful. But there is a third type of handedness you might have ...

People who are "mixed-handed," those who are able to use both hands with equal dexterity, may have harder time having a child than righties or lefties, a new study suggests. Researchers found that ...

Atypical lateralization, as indicated by mixed-handedness, has been related to diverse psychopathologies. Maternal prenatal stress has recently been associated with mixed-handedness in the offspring.

Children who are ambidextrous, using either hand with the same ease, may be more likely to have mental health, language and academic problems than their peers, according to a new study. The ...

Left-handedness and certain neurological disorders could go hand-in-hand, a new study revealed, though the researchers and others acknowledged potential limitations. While about 10% of people in the ...

BOCHUM, Germany — Left-handed people appear significantly more often among those with certain mental and neurodevelopmental disorders, according to groundbreaking research that analyzed data from over ...