TY - JOUR AU - Malashichev, Yegor PY - 2018/08/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Distinct molecular mechanisms for development of brain asymmetries? JF - Biological Communications JA - BioComm VL - 63 IS - 2 SE - Communications Arising DO - 10.21638/spbu03.2018.201 UR - https://biocomm.spbu.ru/article/view/992 SP - 103–105 AB - <p>Brain and behavioral asymmetries are often associated with neurodevelopmental disorders, but have yet uncovered genetic and developmental mechanisms. A recent study (Vingerhoets et al., 2018), published in <em>Brain Structure and Function</em>, examined neural structural and functional asymmetries in a cohort of patients with situs inversus totalis, with and without primary ciliarly dyskinesia as a second diagnosis. The authors showed a potential for independent randomization of handedness, language dominance, and visceral laterality; this provides the first experimental hint that different mechanisms for symmetry breaking and molecular cascades may be involved in producing asymmetry of body and brain.</p> ER -