Finger and Palm Prints in Schizophrenia

Study of Palmar Dermatoglyphics in Schizophrenia

“…In males, loops are predominant but no statistical significant difference is found. Similarly Beckman and Norring [7] reported a higher frequency of whorls in female schizophrenics and an increase in arches in males. Sivkov S. et al [10]found in male schizophrenics there was an increased frequency of whorls and in females there was an increased frequency of arches as compared to controls.…”

Dermal Configurations in the Diagnosis of the Down Syndrome: An Attempt at a Simplified Scoring Method

“…In the selection of our series of schizophrenics individuals displaying other distur bances such as oligophrenia were excluded (cf. Beckman and Norring, 1963), which m ay decrease the chance of finding an eventual asso ciation in this sample.…”

“…The m aterial used in this investigation consists of a) data on Down syndrome patients, normals and schizophrenics previously published (Beckman, Gustavson and Norring, 1962;Beckman and Norring, 1963), b) new data on Down syndrome patients which have been examined cytogenetically at the Institute for Medical Genetics, Uppsala (Gustavson, 1964).…”

Dermatoglyphics in Schizophrenic Patients

“…Since the early studies of Cummins [5] who described anomalies in the dermal ridge pattern of palms and fingers of individuals with Down's syndrome, several authors have reported peculiar dermatoglyphic traits associated with various pathological conditions. A number of efforts have been made in the last 30 years to describe the distribution of these traits among schizophrenic patients [12,8,15,13,1,14]. The results obtained so far are however not conclusive.…”