In 2011 the US National Institute of Mental Health launched the Grand Challenges to Global Mental Health on the lines of earlier initiatives on ‘Global Health’ and on ‘Global Chronic Non-Common-communicable diseases’. The Initiative that drew support from a number of...

A literature review by Searleman et al. (1989) suggested that a relationship between the presence of pre- and perinatal complications and handedness does not exist or is very small in normal subjects. Such a relationship might very well be stronger in certain diagnostic groups, however. In the...