@misc{10481/72596,
year = {2021},
month = {12},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/72596},
abstract = {Despite the ancestral evidence of an asymmetry in motor predominance, going through
the inspiring discoveries of Broca and Wernicke on the localization of language processing, continuing
with the subsequent noise coinciding with the study of brain function in commissurotomized
patients—and the subsequent avalanche of data on the asymmetric distribution of multiple types of
neurotransmitters in physiological and pathological conditions—even today, the functional significance
of brain asymmetry is still unknown. Currently, multiple evidence suggests that functional
asymmetries must have a neurochemical substrate and that brain asymmetry is not a static concept
but rather a dynamic one, with intra- and inter-hemispheric interactions between its various processes,
and that it is modifiable depending on changing endogenous and environmental conditions.
Furthermore, based on the concept of neurovisceral integration in the overall functioning of an organism,
some evidence has emerged suggesting that this integration could be organized asymmetrically,
using the autonomic nervous system as a bidirectional communication pathway, whose performance
would also be asymmetric. However, the functional significance of this distribution, as well as the
evolutionary advantage of an asymmetric nervous organization, is still unknown.},
organization = {University of Jaen "Neuroendocrinology and Nutrition"	BIO-221},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Neurochemical asymmetry},
keywords = {Functional asymmetry},
keywords = {Neurovisceral integration},
keywords = {Neuropeptides},
keywords = {Neuropeptidases},
title = {Brain Asymmetry: Towards an Asymmetrical Neurovisceral Integration},
doi = {10.3390/sym13122409},
author = {Ramírez Sánchez, Manuel and Domínguez Vías, German},
}