Handedness, language areas and neuropsychiatric diseases: insights from brain imaging and genetics

Wiberg A., Ng M., Al Omran Y., Alfaro-Almagro F., McCarthy P., Marchini J., Bennett DL., Smith S., Douaud G., Furniss D.

The brain signature and genetic basis of handedness are unclear. Wiberg et al. show that left-handers have higher functional connectivity between language networks, and identify four genomic regions associated with handedness. Variants within these regions appear, by influencing brain architecture, to predispose both to left-handedness and to certain neuropsychiatric diseases.

DOI

10.1093/brain/awz257

Type

Journal article

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Publication Date

2019-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Volume

142

Pages

2938 - 2947

Total pages

9

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