The history of vitamin A goes back over one hundred years, but our realization of its
importance for the brain and cognition is much more recent. The brain is more efficient than …

Epigenetic dysregulation has emerged as a recurring mechanism in the etiology of
neurodevelopmental disorders. Two such disorders, CHARGE and Kabuki syndromes …

In recent years linguists have gained new insight into human language capacities on the
basis of results from linguistics and biology. The so-called biolinguistic enterprise aims to fill …

Brain development requires orchestration of overlapping critical periods defined by
responsiveness to endogenous or exogenous stimuli (ie hormones, light, touch) …

FOXP2 was the first identified monogenic cause of a speech disorder (for review see
Graham et al., 2015). However, it remains to be answered how it affects the development of …

The discovery of associations between developmental speech and language impairments
and rare heterozygous mutations of the Forkhead box protein P2 (FOXP2) gene (Lai et al …

By 1967, it was clear to Eric Lenneberg that reconstructing the phylogenetic history of
language should require the adoption of a non-functional (or Owenian) homology concept …

Epigenetic dysregulation has emerged as a recurring mechanism in the etiology of
neurodevelopmental disorders. Two such disorders, CHARGE and Kabuki syndromes …