Monday, May 9, 2011

Left-handed People Should Have Greater Fear

Results of recent studies states, left handed people have a greater fear than normal people. Based on the test, a group of participants were asked to watch video clips of the movie ‘Silence of the Lamb’ lasted eight minutes. Afterwards, participants were asked to remember scenes that exist in the video.
It turns out left handed participants could only recall some of the scenes of the film. In addition, left-handed people who show symptoms of full repetition suffer Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
"Symptoms of PTSD doubled in left-handed people than normal people," said study leader Dr. Carolyn Choudhary from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.
Chouddhary sure, these findings could provide a new view of how humans suffering from symptoms of PTSD.
In addition, through this study too, the researchers can figure out how the brain works when responding to fear.
"There are two sides of the brain that plays right PTSD.known to respond to fear. On the left-handed person's brain, right brain is dominant, " said Choudhary.
The results of this study will be presented at the British Psychology Society's annual conference, this weekend.

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