I’m left-handed, which means I’ve spent my entire life fumbling with scissors, wiping ink smudges from my pinky finger, and thumbing through magazines backwards. I’ve always accepted that being ...

While the days of forcing left-handed children to use their right hands are mostly over, the bias against lefties continues in most languages around the world.

Sometimes I feel like I am an alien in my own world. True confession: I am left-handed. I am so left-handed that I cannot do anything with my right hand.

Through an innovative approach using a large psychometric and brain imaging database, researchers have demonstrated that the location of language areas in the brain is independent of left- or ...

Researchers from the University of St Andrews have collaborated with a multinational team of researchers from Greece, the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK to explore the intriguing connection between ...

Steak knives, scissors, writing desks, and power tools: If you bring any of these things up around someone and they cringe, they either have a bizarre story to tell or they’re just left-handed, and, ...

I recently stumbled upon a description of research out of Yale that suggested there was a link between left-handedness and psychotic disorders like schizophrenia. Forty percent of those with psychotic ...

There is no single gene for handedness Since the mid-1980s more than 100 journal articles have explored the idea that a single gene might influence handedness. These theories suggested one variant of ...

Left-handedness is sometimes the expression of a genetic defect or an early developmental disturbance. Left-handedness is sometimes the expression of a genetic defect or an early developmental ...

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 ...

New evidence shows that right-handed dominance is age-old, and that handedness might not even originate in the brain. Much of what defines us as a species is all in our heads. First and foremost, ...

Left- or right-handedness may be determined by the genes that position people’s internal organs. About 10 percent of people prefer using their left hand. That ratio is found in every population in the ...