Publication Date:
1978-06-23
Description:
Norepinephrine has a strongly lateralized distribution in the human thalamus. In the pulvinar region the left hemisphere is rich in norepinephrine, whereas in the somatosensory input area the right hemisphere has a higher concentration of this catecholamine. Such naturally occurring left-right differences in concentration of a neurotransmitter represent a new aspect of hemispheric specialization.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Oke, A -- Keller, R -- Mefford, I -- Adams, R N -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1978 Jun 23;200(4348):1411-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/663623" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Dopamine/metabolism
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*Functional Laterality
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Humans
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Middle Aged
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Norepinephrine/*metabolism
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Somatosensory Cortex/metabolism
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Thalamus/anatomy & histology/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
