Language Gene' Effects Explored

Advance for Speech Pathologists & Audiologists reported Dec. 3 on a Nature study led by Dr. Daniel Geschwind, Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Human Genetics, that links the capacity for speech and language in humans to the evolution of a single gene. Geschwind and first author Gena Konopka, a postdoctoral fellow in neurology, were quoted. The findings were also covered Nov. 17 by Psychology Today and United Press International, Nov. 13 by BBC News and Xinhua (China), and Nov. 12 by The (London) Telegraph, Irish Times and Aberdeen (Scotland) Press and Journal.