Crazie Lefties!

Since I am either left handed or at best ambidextrous, this article caught my attention.

The gene that likely makes people left-handed may slightly raise the risk of developing psychotic mental illnesses, according to an international study.

Led by the Wellcome Trust for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, the study involves a team of 40 scientists from 20 research centres across the world, and was published online Tuesday in the scientific journal Molecular Psychiatry.

"This is the first potential genetic influence on human handedness to be identified, and the first putative genetic effect on variability in human brain asymmetry," said an abstract on the study.

The scientists said that little is known about the gene LRRTM1, but they suspect that it modifies symmetry in the human brain.

Asymmetry is important, since the left side of the brain usually controls speech and language and the right side controls emotion. With left-handers this pattern is often reversed.

Personally, I wish to take exception to this finding because we all know that one side of your body is controlled by the opposite hemisphere of the brain.

This would seem to make right handed people operate out of the left side of their brain.......... which means they are not in their "right mind!"

So there!

Your "just the facts, ma'am" scribe;
Allan W Janssen