Is schizophrenia "the price that Homo sapiens pays for language"? Subcortical language processing as the missing link between evolution and language disorder in psychosis - A neurolinguistic approach

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 342-353

  Ketteler, Daniel ^a   Ketteler, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Basal ganglia; Evolution; Language lateralisation; Schizophrenia; Subcortex

Indexed keywords

BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 77952833177     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.04.003     Document Type: Review

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