Handedness and schizotypy

What does hand preference have to do with schizophrenia?

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1st September, 2012

So, schizophrenia isn’t multiple personalities but is characterised by experiencing or believing things that aren’t “real”. It should be clear from your experience of the world that these examples of psychosis are fairly uncommon. However, people can display characteristics related to psychosis without meeting a diagnosis of schizophrenia. “Schizotypy” is a term describing a continuum of personality traits that have much in common with psychosis – positive symptoms (things that non-schizotypes don’t typically display) like magical thinking and unusual perceptual experiences, ...

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