Cerebral asymmetry: A quantitative, multifactorial, and plastic brain phenotype

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 401-413

  Rentería, Miguel E ^a,b  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain lateralization; Cerebral asymmetry; Magnetic resonance imaging; MRI

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CENTRAL SULCUS; COGNITION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DYSLEXIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENDER; HANDEDNESS; HEARING; HEMISPHERE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; TEMPORAL GYRUS;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAIN; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DYSLEXIA; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TWINS;

EID: 84871388994     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/thg.2012.13     Document Type: Article

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