Functional Laterality
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Brain structural abnormalities and mental health sequelae in South Vietnamese ex-political detainees who survived traumatic head injury and torture.

30 Oct 2009 CONTEXT: A pilot study of South Vietnamese ex-political detainees who had been incarcerated in Vietnamese reeducation camps and resettled in the United States disclosed significant mental health problems associated with torture and traumatic head ... Read more...

Altered corticostriatal functional connectivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

30 Oct 2009 CONTEXT: Neurobiological models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) emphasize disturbances in the function and connectivity of brain corticostriatal networks, or "loops." Although neuroimaging studies of patients have supported this network model ... Read more...

Altered effect of dopamine transporter 3'UTR VNTR genotype on prefrontal and striatal function in schizophrenia.

30 Oct 2009 CONTEXT: The dopamine transporter plays a key role in the regulation of central dopaminergic transmission, which modulates cognitive processing. Disrupted dopamine function and impaired executive processing are robust features of schizophrenia. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Functional Laterality'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Brain structural abnormalities and mental health sequelae in South Vietnamese ex-political detainees who survived traumatic head injury and torture. 30 Oct 2009
• Altered corticostriatal functional connectivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder. 30 Oct 2009
• Altered effect of dopamine transporter 3'UTR VNTR genotype on prefrontal and striatal function in schizophrenia. 30 Oct 2009
• Bilateral pseudojoints of the coronoid process (Jacob disease): report of a case and review of the literature. 30 Oct 2009
• Test-retest and alternate forms reliability of the assisting hand assessment. 30 Oct 2009
• Nonlinear integration of visual and haltere inputs in fly neck motor neurons. 19 Oct 2009
• Cortical representation of ipsilateral arm movements in monkey and man. 12 Oct 2009
• Involvement of the thalamocortical loop in the spontaneous switching of percepts in auditory streaming. 5 Oct 2009
• Long-term modifications in motor cortical dynamics induced by intensive practice. 5 Oct 2009
• Vestibular asymmetry as the cause of idiopathic scoliosis: a possible answer from Xenopus. 5 Oct 2009
• Regional changes in word-production laterality after a naming treatment designed to produce a rightward shift in frontal activity. 4 Oct 2009
• Discriminative conditioning with different CS-US intervals produces temporally differentiated conditioned responses in the two eyes of the rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). 29 Sep 2009
• Bimanual motor coordination in agenesis of the corpus callosum. 29 Sep 2009
• Characterization of a novel C8 phasic muscle stretch reflex. 29 Sep 2009
• Complement factor H and the bilaterality of age-related macular degeneration. 29 Sep 2009
• Anatomical segregation of representations of personally familiar and famous people in the temporal and parietal cortices. 29 Sep 2009
• Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation of the prefrontal cortex enhances complex verbal associative thought. 29 Sep 2009
• The medial temporal lobe and the left inferior prefrontal cortex jointly support interference resolution in verbal working memory. 29 Sep 2009
• The role of the parietal lobe in visual extinction studied with transcranial magnetic stimulation. 29 Sep 2009
• Distinct orbitofrontal regions encode stimulus and choice valuation. 29 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Functional Laterality'

Definition: Behavioral manifestations of cerebral dominance in which there is preferential use and superior functioning of either the left or the right side, as in the preferred use of the right hand or right foot.

Descriptor UI: D007839

Alternative terms: Functional Laterality; Laterality, Functional; Behavioral Laterality; Laterality, Behavioral; Laterality of Motor Control; Motor Control Laterality; Handedness; Mirror Writing; Mirror Writings; Writing, Mirror; Writings, Mirror; Ambidexterity;

Related Mesh Headings: Split-Brain Procedure;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics; genetics;

Tree Number: F02.830.297.425; G11.561.225.425;

History Note: 2007(1966); for MIRROR WRITING use DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL 1976-2006 & HANDWRITING 1963-1975

Technical Notes: restrict to neurological & psychological sense; sidedness or laterality of disease, index the disease with /pathol or /physiopathol; for unilateral or bilateral surgery, index the surgical technique with /methods if pertinent