When most people think about handedness, they have two different forms in mind: Left-handedness and right-handedness. Overall, studies that investigated how many people are left-handed and ...

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 ...

The term “handedness” refers to the tendency to use one hand over the other, such as left-handedness or right-handedness. It’s also known as hand preference. So, if you naturally use your right hand ...

People who are "mixed-handed," those who are able to use both hands with equal dexterity, may have harder time having a child than righties or lefties, a new study suggests. Researchers found that ...

Children who are ambidextrous, using either hand with the same ease, may be more likely to have mental health, language and academic problems than their peers, according to a new study. The ...

The fact that left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness are strikingly common in patients with certain neurological disorders such as autism spectrum disorders is a frequently reported observation in ...

Left-handedness and certain neurological disorders could go hand-in-hand, a new study revealed, though the researchers and others acknowledged potential limitations. While about 10% of people in the ...

Most of us are firmly righty or lefty. We have the go-to hand we favor for just about everything, and we have the hand that’s … less useful. But there is a third type of handedness you might have ...