A left-hand advantage for self-description: The impact of schizotypal personality traits

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 65, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 147-151

  Platek, Steven M ^a,b   Myers, Thomas E ^a   Critton, Samuel R ^a   Gallup Jr , Gordon G ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Right cortical hemisphere; Schizotypal personality; Self awareness; Self description; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0242720292     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-9964(02)00494-2     Document Type: Article

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