Language lateralization in monozygotic twins discordant and concordant for schizophrenia. A functional MRI pilot study

European Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 319-322

  Spaniel, Filip ^a,c   Tintera, Jaroslav ^b,c   Hajek, Tomas ^a,c   Horacek, Jiri ^a,c   Dezortova, Monika ^b,c   Hajek, Milan ^b,c   Dockery, Colleen ^a,c   Kozeny, Jiri ^a,c   Höschl, Cyril ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Language lateralization; Monozygotic twins; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; DISEASES IN TWINS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 34447629211     PISSN: 09249338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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