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Brain asymmetry predicts suicide among navy alcohol abusers.
Conrad Chyatte,Vann Smith +1 more
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Left-handedness: a marker for decreased survival fitness.
Stanley Coren,Diane F. Halpern +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence suggests that left-handedness may be a marker for birth stress related neuropathy, developmental delays and irregularities, and deficiencies in the immune system due to the intrauterine hormonal environment.
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Cultural influences on handedness: Historical and contemporary theory and evidence.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the cultural influences on handedness and find that right-handers comprise the vast majority of the adult population and they also would seem to have been the norm since prehistoric time.
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Do left-handers die sooner than right-handers? Commentary on Coren and Halpern's (1991) "Left-handedness: a marker for decreased survival fitness".
TL;DR: The case for the "decreased survival fitness" hypothesis cannot be sustained and new studies in which the longevity explanation was tested by more direct means than have been used thus far are discussed.
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The androgen model of suicide completion.
Bernd Lenz,Mareike Röther,Polyxeni Bouna-Pyrrou,Christiane Mühle,Ozan Yüksel Tektas,Johannes Kornhuber +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that in utero androgen exposure and adult androgen levels facilitate suicide completion in an synergistic manner and provides the basis for the development of novel predictive and preventive strategies in the future.
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Left-handedness and life span : a reply to Harris
Diane F. Halpern,Stanley Coren +1 more
TL;DR: Supporting statistical evidence virtually always shows an increased incidence of left handedness associated with a wide range of health risk factors, including serious accidents, immune disorders, early onset breast cancer, alcoholism, smoking, some types of mental retardation, homosexuality, birth-related complications, and selected categories of mental disorders.
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