The price of language?

John Maddox
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Nature, 1997, vol. 388, issue 6641, 424-425

Abstract: A meeting held last month, “The evolution of language and the speciation ofHomo sapiens”, had a hidden agenda - a theory for the underlying biological cause of schizophrenia. According to this theory, schizophrenia stems from a failure to develop the normal asymmetric positioning, in the brain, of the language-processing centre (Broca's region). If this is so, a gene or genes involved in development would be implicated, and could in principle be identified. But resolution of the issue is unlikely to be so straightforward

Date: 1997
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