Asymmetry of the Brain: Development and Implications

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 647-672

  Duboc, Véronique ^a,b   Dufourcq, Pascale ^a,b   Blader, Patrick ^a,b   Roussigné, Myriam ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Animal models; Genetics of brain lateralization; Human hemispheric specialization; Zebrafish epithalamus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONCEPTION; CONNECTOME; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LONG TERM MEMORY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WORKING MEMORY; ZEBRA FISH; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; EMBRYOLOGY; EPITHALAMUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

HORMONE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EPITHALAMUS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HORMONES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; POSTURE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84948732999     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-112414-055322     Document Type: Article

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