Handedness of healthy elderly and patients with Alzheimer’s disease

Purpose/Aim of the study: Research has suggested decreasing proportions of non-right handers in older age groups and reduced incidence of non-right handedness among individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We hypothesized that healthy elderly individuals would have a higher proportion of non-right handers than individuals with AD and that the proportion of non-right handers would decrease with increasing age. Further, we investigated whether...