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Genetic influences of cortical gray matter in language-related regions in healthy controls and schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia research - 1 Jul 2011
Jamadar S, Powers N R, Meda S A, Gelernter J, Gruen J R, Pearlson G D
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Individuals with schizophrenia show a broad range of language impairments, including reading difficulties. A recent structural MRI (sMRI) study linked these difficulties to structural abnormalities in language-related regions (Leonard et al., 2008). Similar regions have been implicated in primary reading disability (RD). Major hypotheses of RD implicate abnormal embryonic neuronal migration in the cortex, and...
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