Familial aggregation of strong hemispheric language lateralization

K Anneken1, C Konrad, B Dräger

  • 1Department of Neurology, University of Muenster, Albert-Schweitzer-Str. 33, 48129 Muenster, Germany. anneken@uni-muenster.de

Neurology
|December 30, 2004
PubMed

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