The Clinical Neuroscience of Lateralization - Paperback

by Annakarina Mundorf (Author), Sebastian Ocklenburg (Author)

The Clinical Neuroscience of Lateralization gives the first comprehensive transdiagnostic overview of the evidence for changes in hemispheric asymmetries in different psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Taking a multidisciplinary perspective informed by both basic science and clinical studies, the authors integrate recent breakthroughs on hemispheric asymmetries in psychology, neuroscience, genetics and comparative research. They give a general introduction to hemispheric asymmetries and the techniques used to assess them, and review the evidence for changes in hemispheric asymmetries in different psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. The book also discusses neurological disorders like Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis and highlights the importance of open science in clinical laterality research.

Offering a fresh perspective on a longstanding issue in clinical neuroscience, this book will be of great interest for academics, researchers, and students in the fields of clinical and developmental neuroscience, biopsychology and neuropsychology.

Author Biography

Annakarina Mundorf is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Medicine, Medical Psychology, MSH Medical School Hamburg, Germany.

Sebastian Ocklenburg is Professor of Biopsychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.