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Cortical Microstructures: Lateralization, Ageing, and Disruption Across the Lifespan

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The present review considers the evidence for microstructural cell assemblies as a form of neuroanatomical module, constituting building blocks for functional differentiation and processing specialisation (Chance 2014). Their organisation confers subtle differences between the hemispheres in the typically developed human brain and reveals anomalies of development associated with altered processing in some neuropsychiatric conditions. In the mature brain the same structures may be seen to undergo changes as a result of acquired functional specialisation and, in later life, they may be measured as an index of loss of differential function in ageing and neurodegeneration.

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Dr. Steven A. Chance was supported by a pilot award (SFARI ID 307098) from the Simons Foundation, USA.

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Chance, S.A. (2017). Cortical Microstructures: Lateralization, Ageing, and Disruption Across the Lifespan. In: Opris, I., Casanova, M.F. (eds) The Physics of the Mind and Brain Disorders. Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29674-6_18

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