The origin of brain asymmetry and its psychotic reversal

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 468-480

  Fritzsche, Markus ^a  

^a Praxis für Innere Medizin   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; FLUOROMETHYLANANDAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; BREAST FEEDING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0037375515     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(02)00376-6     Document Type: Article

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