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09 November 2022Joery den Hoed defends thesis on 14 November
On Monday, 14 November 12:30 hrs, Joery den Hoed will defend his thesis 'Disentangling the molecular landscape of genetic variation of neurodevelopmental and speech disorders'. A limited number of...
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20 October 2022Gene study identifies series of DNA variants linked to dyslexia
An international team of scientists, including researchers at the University of Edinburgh and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (Netherlands), has for the first time...
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23 August 2022Massive genome study informs the biology of reading and language
What is the biological basis of our uniquely human capacity to speak, read and write? A genome-wide analysis of five reading- and language-based skills in many thousands of people, published in PNAS...
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04 March 2022Genetic links between mental disorders and social behaviour are variable
Many mental health conditions are associated with social difficulties, and mental disorders and social behaviour are genetically linked. But do genetic links vary with specific social traits? An...
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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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21 October 2019Synaesthesia gives new insights into how we experience the world around us
Sometimes described as a blending of the senses, synaesthesia is an unusual trait where exposure to a triggering stimulus (e.g. music or letters of the alphabet) causes an immediate additional...
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19 August 2019Variation in the shape of speech organs influences language evolution
Why do speech sounds vary across languages? Does the shape of our speech organs play a role? In a computer modelling study reported in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from the Max Planck Institute...
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