Mapping brain asymmetry in health and disease through the ENIGMA consortium

XZ Kong, MC Postema, T Guadalupe… - Human brain …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Left–right asymmetry of the human brain is one of its cardinal features, and also a complex,
multivariate trait. Decades of research have suggested that brain asymmetry may be altered …

Mapping cortical brain asymmetry in 17,141 healthy individuals worldwide via the ENIGMA Consortium

XZ Kong, SR Mathias, T Guadalupe… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Hemispheric asymmetry is a cardinal feature of human brain organization. Altered brain
asymmetry has also been linked to some cognitive and neuropsychiatric disorders. Here, the …

The genetic architecture of structural left–right asymmetry of the human brain

Z Sha, D Schijven, A Carrion-Castillo, M Joliot… - Nature human …, 2021 - nature.com
Left–right hemispheric asymmetry is an important aspect of healthy brain organization for
many functions including language, and it can be altered in cognitive and psychiatric …

Large-scale analysis of structural brain asymmetries in schizophrenia via the ENIGMA consortium

D Schijven, MC Postema… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Left–right asymmetry is an important organizing feature of the healthy brain that may be
altered in schizophrenia, but most studies have used relatively small samples and …

Mapping brain asymmetry

AW Toga, PM Thompson - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2003 - nature.com
Brain asymmetry has been observed in animals and humans in terms of structure, function
and behaviour. This lateralization is thought to reflect evolutionary, hereditary …

Asymmetry in the central nervous system: A clinical neuroscience perspective

A Mundorf, J Peterburs, S Ocklenburg - Frontiers in systems …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recent large-scale neuroimaging studies suggest that most parts of the human brain show
structural differences between the left and the right hemisphere. Such structural hemispheric …

Human subcortical brain asymmetries in 15,847 people worldwide reveal effects of age and sex

T Guadalupe, SR Mathias, TGM Vanerp… - Brain imaging and …, 2017 - Springer
The two hemispheres of the human brain differ functionally and structurally. Despite over a
century of research, the extent to which brain asymmetry is influenced by sex, handedness …

Cerebral asymmetry: a quantitative, multifactorial, and plastic brain phenotype

ME Rentería - Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2012 - cambridge.org
The longitudinal fissure separates the human brain into two hemispheres that remain
connected through the corpus callosum. The left and the right halves of the brain resemble …

Altered structural brain asymmetry in autism spectrum disorder in a study of 54 datasets

MC Postema, D Van Rooij, E Anagnostou… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Altered structural brain asymmetry in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been reported.
However, findings have been inconsistent, likely due to limited sample sizes. Here we …

Evolution of Human Brain Left–Right Asymmetry: Old Genes with New Functions

J Wang, S Ma, P Yu, X He - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The human brain is generally anatomically symmetrical, boasting mirror-like brain regions in
the left and right hemispheres. Despite this symmetry, fine-scale structural asymmetries are …