- Hand Reading Mini-Course (P1) -

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INDEX (P1):
1 - Index

INTRODUCTION (P2):
2 - Hand Diagnostics - the hand is a diagnostic tool!

Hand Diagnostics & the HISTORY (P3-7):
3 - Paracelsus used hands for disease + Purkinje's fingerprint classification system
4 - Carus's handtype system & Galton's fingerprint discoveries
5 - Down syndrome: simian crease, dermatoglyphics & palmar creases
6 - Hand development, volar pads & phantom-picture for Down syndrome
7 - Down syndrome & dermatoglyphics (Deckers, Cummins and Midlo)

Hand Diagnostics & DISEASES (P8-13):
8 - Medical hand reading, diseases & syndromes (Down syndrome & other trisomies)
9 - Dermatoglyhic axial triradius, AtD-angle & A-line (autosomal trisomies)
10 - Phantom pictures, trisomies, fingerprints, loops, arches & whorls
11 - Syndromes & chromosomes (malformations + deviations)
12 - Sydney line (long head line), syndromes with a gene abnormality
13 - Other diseases: fetal alcohol syndrome, (auto)immune diseases & infection diseases

Hand Diagnostics & PSYCHIATRY (P14-25):
14 - Schizophrenia, psychosis & depression
15 - Schizophrenia: dermatoglyphics, hand morphology & creases
16 - Schizophrenia: dermatoglyphics, fingerprints, triradius & a-b ridge count
17 - Schizophrenia: dermatoglyphics, A-line, left-right differences, & asymmetry
18 - Schizophrenia: hand morphology, hand expression, thumb expression & Charlotte Wolff
19 - Schizophrenia: nails, finger length, thumb, index finger, ring finger & little finger
20 - Schizophrenia: palmar lines, head line, heart line, life line & simian line
21 - Schizophrenia: lines & research (Haft-Pomrock & Ginath, Cannon)
22 - Psychosis: dermatoglyphics, fingerprint, AtD angle & axial triradius
23 - Psychosis: broken skin ridges, abnormal lines & simian crease
24 - Depression: broken skin ridges & unusual dermatoglyphic patterns
25 - Depression: hand type & malformation palmar creases (Charlotte Wolff)

Hand Diagnostics & PSYCHOLOGY (P26-32):
26 - Intelligence & minor physical deviations
27 - Charlotte Wolff, intelligence, feeble minded people, syndactyly & abnormal creases
28 - Personality and "nature-nurture" debate (Freud, Maslow & Eysenck)
29 - Personality disorders, dermatoglyphics, MMPI, MBTI & the Big Five
30 - Developmental disorders, autism & dyslexia (dermatoglyphics, morphology)
31 - Hyperactive children, simian line, Sydney crease, palm creases
32 - Fate line & childhood restrictions (Prof. Rowan Bayne study)

CONCLUSIONS (P33-34):
33 - Conclusions (1/2): Hand diagnostics, simian creases & phantom pictures
34 - Conclusions (2/2): Scientific debates, fingerprint pattern & dermatoglyphics