Language fMRI abnormalities associated with FOXP2 gene mutation

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1230-1237

  Liégeois, Frédérique ^a,b   Baldeweg, Torsten ^a,b   Connelly, Alan ^a,b   Gadian, David G ^a,b   Mishkin, Mortimer ^c   Vargha Khadem, Faraneh ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FOXP2 GENE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISORDER; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUTATION; SPEECH; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0242290123     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1138     Document Type: Article

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