Cerebral Lateralization: Biological Mechanisms, Associations, and Pathology: II. A Hypothesis and a Program for Research

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1985, Pages 521-552

  Geschwind, Norman ^a,b   Galaburda, Albert M ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

AGE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM;

BRAIN; CHROMOSOMES; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EAR; ETHNOLOGY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FACE; FATHERS; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTELLIGENCE; LATERALITY; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MOTHERS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEURAL CREST; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROGESTERONE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; REPRODUCTION; SCOLIOSIS; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SEX HORMONES; SEX MATURATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTOSTERONE; TWINS; WRITING; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0021811824     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1985.04060060019009     Document Type: Article

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