Neurosciences Applied to Handwriting Examination

Some difficult cases for forensic document examiners can be related to brain illnesses that affect handwriting. As a brain-governed function, handwriting has been studied by medical science for many years. Those studies could be crucial to guiding the expert in evaluating causes of variability in handwriting. A. R. Luria was a neuropsychologist at the University of Moscow who studied consequences of different injuries to the human brain. Part of Luria’s work focused on the handwriting of patients with brain wounds. Our objective was to review some of Luria’s most relevant findings compiled in the book, Th Working Brain, An Introduction to Neuropsychology. Some neuroscience findings from other authors who studied handwriting from a medical point of view are also included.