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TY - GEN ID - cogprints4033 UR - http://cogprints.org/4033/ A1 - Collinson, Dr SL A1 - Phillips, Dr TJ A1 - James, Dr AC A1 - Quested, Dr DJ A1 - Crow, Dr TJ Y1 - 2004/// N2 - The aim of this study was to investigate lateral bias in patients with early-onset schizophrenia. Hand, eye, and foot preferences and relative hand skill were examined in early-onset patients (n=44) and matched controls (n=39), and were compared with population estimates. Patients demonstrated a significant excess in mixed handedness (20.5% vs. 8.5%) relative to population estimates and reduced relative hand skill on a pegboard task compared with controls. Left eye preference was significantly less common in schizophrenic patients relative to population estimates. Crossed eye-hand and eye-foot preferences were not significantly increased in the patient group as a whole but were present, respectively, in four of nine and five of nine mixed-handed patients but in none of five mixed-handed controls. These findings are consistent with the view that lateralisation is anomalous in schizophrenia early in the course of illness. PB - Elsevier Ireland Ltd. KW - Laterality; Schizophrenia; Handedness; Eye preference; Foot preference TI - Is lateral bias anomalous in early-onset schizophrenia? Selected comparisons with normal populations SP - 219 AV - public EP - 224 ER -