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Left-Handedness - Brain Damage?

engelking at earthlink.net engelking at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 20 13:28:35 EST 1996


I am a left-handed person and I have been recently reading up on the
causes of my handednes.. Many of the reports I have read conclude that it
is caused by either trauma to the brain at birth, it is genetic, or that
it is a form of brain damage (!). What is the status of all these theories
in the medical community? And also, do we left-handed people have any
special right brain skills (visual-spatial I've read?)? What are the
consequences of being left-handed? How do I differ from right-handers?


Thanks,
engelking at earthlink.net



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