Press coverage
BBC News, April 2024
Why is only 10 percent of the population left-handed? (News video)
National Public Radio (USA), April 2024
Genes play a very small role in determining left-handedness, research finds (Radio interview)
Nature News, April 2024
Right- or left-handed? Protein in embryo cells might help decide
Reuters, April 2024
Gene involved in cell shape offers clues on left-handedness
April 2024
Linking left-handedness to rare genetic variants: News articles in different languages and countries
genomeweb, February 2023
Large-Scale Study Reveals Genetics of White Matter Connections in the Human Brain
Technology Networks, February 2023
White Matter Structure and Genetics May Reveal Links to Brain-Related Disorders
Nouvelles du monde, February 2023
Sport.es, November 2021
Los cerebros de las personas zurdas dedican más neuronas al control de la mano izquierda
Clarín, November 2021
Zurdos: explican por qué escriben con la mano izquierda
Yahoo!News, November 2021
Les particularités du cerveau des gauchers
Newsweek, October 2019
BRAINS OF PEOPLE WITH AUTISM MORE SYMMETRICAL THAN NEUROTYPICALS, SCIENTISTS FIND
ScienceAlert, October 2019
People With Autism Have More Symmetrical Brains. Here's What That Could Mean
MedicalXpress, October 2019
People with autism have a more symmetrical brain
Psychology Today, February 2019
Left-Handedness Is Influenced by Early Life Factors
ScienceDaily, February 2017
Handedness arises from genes in the spinal cords of embryos
Medical Daily, February 2017
Leftie Or Rightie? Your Nervous System Develops Preferred Handedness As An Embryo
Medical Xpress, July 2016
Max Planck Forschung, July 2016
'Asymmetrical matter' (article featuring our research group)
German language version: 'Das schafft unser Gehirn mit links'
TheScientist, October 2015
Lefties, Language, and Lateralization
ScienceDaily, February 2014
Call to scientists: Stop excluding left-handed people from scientific studies
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08 June 2022Clyde Francks appointed professor of Brain Imaging Genomics
Clyde Francks, research group leader of the Imaging Genomics group at the Max Planck Institute, has been appointed Professor of Brain Imaging Genomics at Radboud university medical center. He studies...
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17 November 2021Large study compares the brains of left-handers and right-handers
Roughly ten percent of people are left-handed, but the neural basis of handedness has been unclear. An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the...
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16 March 2021Scientists link genes to brain asymmetry
The left and right sides of our brain specialise in different functions. But what is the genetic basis of this left-right asymmetry? In a large-scale genetic study, scientists from the Max Planck and...
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31 October 2019People with autism have a more symmetrical brain
Do people with autism have differently organised brains? A large-scale MRI study, published in Nature Communications, reports fewer differences between the right and left hemispheres in people with...
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16 May 2018A new map of asymmetry in the human brain
A research team led by the MPI for Psycholinguistics has compared a massive number of 17,141 brain scans to examine the similarity in anatomy of the left and right brain halves. The brains of people...
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