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Table 1 Summary of studies including measures of behavioral lateralization in subjects with bipolar disorder (BD) and healthy controls (HC)

From: Behavioral lateralization in bipolar disorders: a systematic review

Lateralized behavior

Study

Sample

Type of BD

Method laterality

Results for BD

Dichotic listening

Bruder et al. (1981)

BD: 14; HC: 15, all RH

BD I + II

DL click detection

↓ Threshold intensity when right ear click preceded left ear click

Green and Walker (1986)

BD: 16; HC: 12

BD I

DL digits

↔

Bruder et al. (1989)

BD:22, HC: 30

BD II

DL consonant-vowel + tone

↔

Bruder et al. (1992)

BD: 11, HC: 24

BD

DL consonant-vowel + tone

↔

Kaprinis et al. (1995)

BD: 26, HC: 30

All RH

BD

DL digits

LEA during manic episode; REA in recovery

Force et al. (2008)

BD: 18; HC: 36

BD

DL tones

↔

Bozikas et al. (2014)

BD: 20; HC: 35

BD I

DL two-syllable words

↓ REA

Najt and Hausmann (2014)

BD: 22; HC: 18

BD I

DL emotional prosody + linguistic

↔ Linguistic DL

↓ Advantage in emotional prosody DL

Eyedness

Shan-Ming et al. (1985)

BD: 56; HC: 432

Manic-depressive

Hole test

↑ Left-eye dominance

Atagun et al. (2012)

BD: 68; HC: 65

BD I

Near-far alignment and kaleidoscope tests

↔

Goodarzi et al. (2015)

BD: 17; HC: 113 (high-school)

BD

Hole test

↑ Left-eye dominance

Asymmetries in visual modality

Bruder et al. (1989)

BD: 22; HC: 30

BD II

Visual half field, dot enumeration

↓ Performance for left visual field

Bruder et al. (1992)

BD: 11; HC: 24

BD

Visual half field, dot enumeration

↓ Performance for left visual field

Rao et al. (2010)

BD: 31; HC: 103

Bipolar affective, in remission

Line bisection

Leftward deviation with RH

Najt et al. (2013)

BD: 22; HC: 18

BD I

Line bisection

No leftward bias with LH versus RH

Handedness

Shan-Ming et al. (1985)

BD: 56; HC: 432

Manic-depressive

Tool use

↔

Bruder et al. (1989)

BD:22; HC: 30

BD II

EHI LQ (2-categorial)

↔

Bruder et al. (1992)

BD: 11; HC: 24

BD

EHI LQ (2-categorial)

↔

Clementz et al. (1994)

BD: 36; HC: 33

BD

EHI (2-categorial)

↔

Koek et al. (1999)

BD: 13

BD I + II

EHI

↑ Ratio of LH

Noga et al. (2001)

BD: 12; HC: 34 Twins

BD

EHI (2-categorial)

↔

Kravariti et al. (2005)

BD: 30; HC: 30

BD I

AHQ

↑ Ratio of LH

Sanches et al. (2005)

BD: 15; HC: 21 (children-adolescents)

BD euthymic

Not specified

↔

Savitz et al. (2007)

BD: 78; HC: 66

BD I + II

WHQ

↑ Lateralization, ↔ side

Fasmer et al. (2008)

BD I: 36; BD II: 51

BD I + II

EHI (3-categorial)

↔

Nowakowska et al. (2008)

BD: 796

BD I + II

EHI (2-categorial)

↔

Atagun et al. (2012)

BD: 68; HC: 65

BD I

EHI, peg board

↑ RH, ↓ reaction time

van Dyck et al. (2012)

BD: 155; HC: 179

BD

EHI + self-report

↑ Non-right-handedness

Goodarzi et al. (2015)

BD: 17; HC: 113 (high-school)

BD

EHI (3-categorial)

↔

Van Voorhis et al. (2019)

BD: 21; HC: 56

BD I

EHI (sum score) + writing hand

↔

Cansiz and Ince (2021)

BD: 66; HC: 66

BD I euthymic

EHI LQ

↔

Mallet et al. (2022b)

BD I: 1162; BD II: 1012

BD I + II

Self-report

↔

Footedness

Savitz et al. (2007)

BD: 78; HC: 66

BD I + II

WFQ

↑ Lateralization, ↔ side

Atagun et al. (2012)

BD: 68; HC: 65

BD I

Not specified

↓ Left-lateralized

Goodarzi et al. (2015)

BD: 17; HC: 113 (high-school)

BD

Chapman foot preference inventory

↔

  1. In case the type of BD is not further specified, the table only reads ‘BD’
  2. LH left hand, RH right hand, AHQ Annett Handedness Questionnaire, DL dichotic listening, EHI Edinburgh Handedness Inventory, LEA left-ear advantage, REA right-ear advantage, WHQ Waterloo Handedness Questionnaire, WFQ Waterloo Footedness Questionnaire
  3. ↑: increased/stronger; ↔: no difference; ↓: decreased/weaker compared to controls