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Why being left-handed matters for mental health treatment
Treatment for the most common mental health problems could be ineffective or even detrimental to about 50 percent of the population, according to a radical new model of emotion in the brain. Since the 1970s, hundreds of studies have suggested that each hemisphere of the brain is home to a specific type of emotion. Emotions linked to approaching and engaging with the world – like happiness, pride and anger – lives in the left side of the brain, while emotions associated with avoidance – like disgust and fear – are housed in the right.
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Left handed people are having a bad news week!
If that's so, it's not down to clickbait nonsense like this ill-considered, poorly-researched press release. They seem not to know much about handedness. Like the proportion of people with a given handedness, or the failure of phrenology in the early Nineteenth Century, niggling things really. I'm left handed, and this backwoodsy prattle's not going to put a cloud over my week in the slightest.
I'm left handed too, and the only thing that's true is we're smarter....kidding.
You know who else was left handed? Literally Hendrix.
Was that Jimmy's brother??