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Laterality and mental disorders in the postgenomic age--A closer look at schizophrenia and language lateralization.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews - 1 Dec 2015
Ocklenburg Sebastian, Güntürkün Onur, Hugdahl Kenneth, Hirnstein Marco
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Most people are right-handed and show left-hemispheric language lateralization, but a minority exhibits left-handedness and right-hemispheric language lateralization. This atypical laterality pattern is observed significantly more often in schizophrenia patients than in the general population, which led several authors to conclude that there is a genetic link between laterality and schizophrenia. It has even been...
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