Hormones and handedness
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 37 (4) , 711
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.37.4.711
Abstract
An excess of left-handers among males has been attributed to early androgen exposure. This theory was supported by our observation that girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) are more left-biased than their normal sisters. Male CAH patients, with prenatal androgen exposure similar to that of unaffected brothers, had typical male-handedness patterns.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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