Motoric Laterality Imbalance in Schizophrenia: A Possible Concomitant of Left Hemisphere Dysfunction

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1977, Pages 33-37

  Gur, Raquel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; ETIOLOGY; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATERALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0017356958     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1977.01770130035003     Document Type: Article

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