Aim. The author develops complete digital dermatoglyphic investigations, on the basis of a pathological perspective, on a group of delinquents from Moldova (North-East part of Romania). Materials and methods. The study was performed on a group of 105 teen-agers and young delinquents with ages between 16 and 26 years, imprisoned in the Penitentiary of Iaşi, coming from different districts (the d...

Background: Recreational drugs have a significant impact on the lives of drug users, their close families and friends, as well as their society. Social, psychological, biological, and genetic factors could make a person more prone to using recreational drugs. Finger and A-B ridges (dermatoglyphics) are formed during the first and second trimesters of fetal development, under the influence of en...

Dermatoglyphic studies Carried out in Schizophrenia have been evaluated and critically examined. Methodological errors existing in the previous studies have been pointed out and some guidelines for methodological refinements suggested and a dermatoglyphic corsensus index for diagnosis has been evolved. The heterogeneous nature of schizophrenia, being a group of syndromes, has been unanimously a...

The number of ridges on the fingertips has a major genetic contribution, and is fixed by the fourth month of fetal life. Most people have a higher count on the right-hand side (R > ), approx. 20% have a higher left-hand side (L > ) count. The incidence of higher left count is greater in women and in homosexual men. Direction of dermatoglyphic asymmetry was not found to be related to handedness ...

With the demonstration of a strong genetic component in ridge counts by Sarah Holt (eg, Holt, 1961), which came as the culmination of a large number of early exploratory papers on the inheritance of dermatoglyphic traits (summarized in Cummins and Midlo, 1961), the relationship of finger and palm prints with genetic disease was an obvious topic for exploration. During the last decade a number o...

Palm prints of 55 male and 33 female schizophrenic patients from Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh were examined for a possible association between palmar dermatoglyphic characteristics and the disease. There was a marked difference between patients and normal controls with regard to palmar C line termination, axial triadic, number of ridges at the a-b inter digital area and the frequency of var...

The first known observations of dermal ridges were made by Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712) who wrote in the Philosophical Transactions of 1684 "For if any one will but take the pains, with an indifferent Glass, to survey the Palm ot his Hand very well washed with a Ball; he may perceive innumerable little Ridges, of equal bigness and distance, and everywhere running parallel one with another. And esp...