At last, the benefits of being left-handed are confirmed

A new study has found that lefties ’ brains could be associated with better verbal skills, among other talents. I always knew I was specialBeing a leftie has a genetic component, is linked to better verbal skills and is associated with a lower risk of Parkinson ’s disease, according toa new study published in the journal Brain. Unfortunately for Guardian readers, that ’s leftie in the handedness sense, not political. Fortunately for me, I’m both.The study is a fascinating one, using thousands of brain scans and hundreds of thousands of sequenced genomes to look for associations between genes, brains and hands. It found that, in left-handers, the left and right hemispheres had stronger links in the regions associated with language, which could correlate with greater language ability.Continue reading...
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