Prof Marjorie Lorch
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Prof Lorch received her BA in Linguistics, Anthropology, and Biology (Phi Beta Kappa) from Washington University, St. Louis and held a Grass Foundation Non-Clinical Fellowship in Neurology at Barnes Hospital. She was a postgraduate student in Linguistics at University College London, and completed a Ph.D. in Language Behavior (Neurolinguistics) at Boston University while a Research Assistant at the Aphasia Research Center, Boston Veterans Hospital.听听
She joined 糖心logo入口 initially in 1986 as a part-time Lecturer and Research Officer, and became a full-time staff member in 1991.听 She had a long-standing research collaboration at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square.听
Prof Lorch鈥檚 interdisciplinary research addresses questions regarding the mental construction of language, speech, voice, reading and writing from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. She has investigated the nature of language as a human biological endowment through evidence from neurological disorder and development; cross-linguistic and multilingual aspects of neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic processing; and the relation of language to music and literacy. 听One major research strand focuses on 19th century approaches to the understanding of language function and disorder, acquisition and learning in the context of the emerging disciplines of linguistics, neurology, psychology and education. 听
Her programme of research involves numerous international cross-disciplinary collaborations with medical practitioners, psychologists, speech and language therapists, educators and historians. She has had Visiting Research Fellowships at the Zentrum f眉r interdisziplin盲re Forschung in Bielefeld, Germany; University of California in Los Angeles, USA; the Nat C. Robertson Distinguished Visiting Professor of Science and Society, Emory University, Atlanta, USA; the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, Providence, USA; Duke University, Durham, USA; and Loyola University, Chicago, USA.
Prof Lorch was appointed twice to the sub-panel for Modern Languages and Linguistics for the Research Excellence Framework for England for REF 2014 and REF 2021. She has been an Associate Editor of the journal Cortex from 2003-2025, and now is Consulting Editor. She is currently on the editorial board of Historiographia Linguistica and Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. She serves on the executive board of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, and the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, and was a founder member of the University Council of General and Applied Linguistics.
Administrative responsibilities
- Chair of the Postgraduate Sub-Board of Examiners for Language, Culture and Applied Linguistics Programmes
- Programme Director of BA Language Teaching and Languages
- Admissions Tutor, Postgraduate Research in Applied Linguistics and Communication
Visiting posts
- Invited Visiting Lecturer, April 2003, University of Jinan and University of Chonqing, People鈥檚 Republic of China,
- Nat C. Robertson Distinguished Visiting Professor of Science and Society 2007, Emory University, Atlanta USA ,
- Visiting Senior Research Fellowship 2015, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, Providence, USA,
- Erasmus Staff Exchange 2015, Universit脿 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Italy,
- Barra Foundation International Research Fellowship in American History and Culture 2022, Library Company of Philadelphia, USA,
- Senior Visiting Research Fellow 2022-2025, Special Collections and Archives, Loyola University Chicago, USA,
Honours and awards
- President International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, February 2010
- Silver Gilt Award, Member of the Embroidered Minds Collective, Epilepsy Garden Chelsea Flower Show, Royal Horticultural Society, October 2018
- Editor's Choice journal article award American Psychological Assoicaton, October 2025
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Neurolinguistics
- History of Linguistics and Psychology
- Psycholinguistics
Research overview
Marjorie Lorch's main research interest is in understanding how language is organized in the brain through the investigation of neurogenic language and communication disorders, with a specific interest in cross-linguistic comparisons and bilingual speakers. She carries out research into the understanding of language and communication from a historical perspective focusing on the 19th-century history of ideas.
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Overview
Marjorie Lorch supervises PhD students on a range topics focussing on aphasia, specific language impairment and other communication disorders including multilingual and cross-linguistics perspectives, in addition to historical research into 19th-century ideas about language organization in the brain, language development and language learning.
I am happy to consider enquiries from potential doctoral students on topics relating to
- acquired and developmental language, speech, voice and communication impairments in monolingual and multilingual speakers
- 19th century history of ideas about language and thought
Please don't hesitate to contact me if you would like an informal discussion about your ideas for an MPhil or PhD.
Current Postgraduate Research Students
Second Supervisor
Malwina Gudowska, Multilingual Mothering: The (Re)Construction of the Mixed Emotions of Mothers Raising Multilingual Children.
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Principal Supervisor
Emina Tuzovic, L2 Visual Word Processing in L1 Arabic L2 English Learners 鈥揃eyond Vowel Blindness, 2023.
Ariadni Loutrari, Prosody beyond pitch and emotion in speech and music: evidence from right hemisphere brain damage and congenital amusia, 2016.
Keith Atkin, Comprehending the nonconventional nonsymbolic behaviours demonstrated by young children with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD), 2013.
Jui-Hua Chen, Linguistic manifestations of aphasia in Taiwanese-Mandarin bilingual speakers, 2011.
Heather McDowell, The relationship between phonological awareness and alphabetical literacy, with reference to L1 Chinese users of L2 English, 2011.
Alan Bradley, Lexical acquisition in a bilingual setting, 2010.
Donia Fahim, Developmental language impairment in Egyptian Arabic, 2005.
Paula Hellal, Acquired childhood aphasia: Historical and theoretical perspectives, 2004.
Isabelle Barriere, On the Acquisition of French Argument Structure and SE-Cliticization: Explaining the L1 Acquisition of Reflexive, Reciprocal, Anticausative and Middle-Passive Constructions across Languages, 2004.
Second Supervisor:
Asma Al-Amer,听Phonological acquisition and development in Arabic-English bilingual children,听2019.
Jennifer Watson,听Intercultural learning and development among youth participants in the short term educational programmes of an international charity (CISV),听2014.
Kadri Hein, Switching between Estonian Sign Language and Spoken Estonian. 2011.
MPhil 糖心logo入口:
Principal Supervisor
Krystle Jalalian, Autism Spectrum Disorders and Bilingualism: the investigation of social communicative abilities and behaviours among bilingual and monolingual ASD and TD children aged 2-5 years, 2020.
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Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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Teaching
I teach the PG core course Research Methods and Design (level 7) and UG and PG option modules Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics. I provide workshops and supervision for BA final year projects and MA dissertations. In addition, I contribute to a number of team taught modules including: Doing Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics (level 4); Investigating Language (level 5); UG Final Year Project in Linguistics (level 6), PG Introduction to Applied Linguistics (level 7).
Teaching modules
- Investigating Language
- Doing Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics
- Research Methods and Design
- Neurolinguistics (level 5)
- Introduction to Applied Linguistics
- Neurolinguistics (level 7)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Lorch, Marjorie (2025) . History of Psychology ISSN 1093-4510.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2025) . Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 34 (4), pp. 543-560. ISSN 0964-704X.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2022) . Cortex 153, pp. 224-234. ISSN 0010-9452.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2020) . FIBIS: The Journal of The Families in British India Society 43, ISSN 1740-3219.
- Loutrari, Ariadni and Lorch, Marjorie (2019) . Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 23, pp. 262-283. ISSN 2529-1114.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Whurr, R. (2019) . Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 28 (2), pp. 262-276. ISSN 0964-704X.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2019) . Frontiers in Neuroanatomy ISSN 1662-5129.
- Loutrari, Ariadni and Lorch, Marjorie (2017) . Brain and Cognition 115, pp. 1-11. ISSN 0278-2626.
- Atkin, K. and Lorch, Marjorie (2016) . Developmental Neurorehabilitation 19 (4), pp. 211-225. ISSN 1751-8423.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2016) . Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 25 (2), pp. 188-203. ISSN 0964-704X.
- Whurr, R. and Lorch, Marjorie (2016) . Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery 24 (3), pp. 203-207. ISSN 1068-9508.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Whurr, R. (2016) . Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology 125 (8), pp. 672-676. ISSN 0003-4894.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2016) . Historiographia Linguistica 43 (1-2), pp. 175-208. ISSN 0302-5160.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Whurr, R. (2016) . Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology 125 (12), pp. 976-981. ISSN 0003-4894.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Hellal, Paula (2016) . Publications of the English Goethe Society 85 (2-3), pp. 110-124. ISSN 0959-3683.
- Johnson, J.K. and Lorch, Marjorie and Nicolas, S. and Grazino, A. (2013) . Brain 136 (5), pp. 1662-1670. ISSN 0006-8950.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2013) . Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports 13 (8), ISSN 1528-4042.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2013) . Brain 136 (8), pp. 2629-2637. ISSN 0006-8950.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Hellal, Paula (2012) . Cortex 48 (8), pp. 1052-1060. ISSN 0010-9452.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2011) . Cortex 47 (10), pp. 1228-1235. ISSN 0010-9452.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Hellal, Paula (2010) . Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 19 (2), pp. 140-157. ISSN 0964-704X.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2010) . Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 6, pp. 10 - 11. ISSN 1877-0428.
- Hellal, Paula and Lorch, Marjorie (2010) . Language & History 53 (1), pp. 1-14. ISSN 1759-7536.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Li, Wei (2009) . Language Teaching 42 (2), pp. 265-269. ISSN 0261-4448.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2009) . Aphasiology 23 (5), pp. 643-654. ISSN 0268-7038.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2008) . Brain 131 (6), pp. 1658 -1670. ISSN 0006-8950.
- McDowell, H.J. and Lorch, Marjorie (2008) . TESOL Quarterly 42 (3), pp. 495-513. ISSN 0039-8322.
- Atkin, K. and Lorch, Marjorie (2007) . Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 21 (4), pp. 261-276. ISSN 0269-9206.
- Hellal, Paula and Lorch, Marjorie (2007) . Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 16 (4), pp. 378-394. ISSN 0964-704X.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2007) . Cortex 43 (5), pp. 577 - 578. ISSN 0010-9452.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2007) . Cortex 43 (5), pp. 658 - 666. ISSN 0010-9452.
- Atkin, K. and Lorch, Marjorie (2006) . Journal of Neurolinguistics 19 (4), pp. 253-269. ISSN 0911-6044.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2006) . Brain 129 (11), pp. 3127-3137. ISSN 0006-8950.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2006) . Aphasiology 20 (9-11), pp. 1059-1071. ISSN 0268-7038.
- Hellal, Paula and Lorch, Marjorie (2005) . Journal of Neurolinguistics 18 (4), pp. 345-360. ISSN 0911-6044.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2005) . Journal of Neurolinguistics 18 (4), pp. 299-299. ISSN 0911-6044.
- Barri猫re, I. and Lorch, Marjorie (2004) . Neurocase 10 (2), pp. 91-108. ISSN 1355-4794.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2004) . Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology 17 (3), pp. 124-132. ISSN 1543-3633.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Whurr, R. (2003) . Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders 1 (1), pp. 35-52. ISSN 1476-9670.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Barri猫re, I. (2003) . Brain and Language 85 (2), pp. 271-279. ISSN 0093-934X.
- Pitres, A. and Barri猫re, I. and Lorch, Marjorie (2003) . Brain and Language 85 (2), pp. 262-270. ISSN 0093-934X.
- Hellal, Paula and Lorch, Marjorie (2003) . Brain and Language 87 (1), pp. 122-123. ISSN 0093-934X.
- Whurr, R. and Lorch, Marjorie (2002) . Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie 11 (1), pp. 22-29. ISSN 0924-7025.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Ferner, R.E. and Golding, J. and Whurr, R. (1999) . Journal of Neurolinguistics 12 (3-4), pp. 157-165. ISSN 0911-6044.
- Barri猫re, I. and Lorch, Marjorie and le Normand, M.T. (1999) . International Journal of Bilingualism 3 (4), pp. 351-362. ISSN 1367-0069.
- Whurr, R. and Bhatia, K.P. and Marsarei, A. and Lorch, Marjorie and Kingsley, D. and Pramstaller, P.P. and Srinivasan, A. and Marsden, C.D. (1999) . Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology 7 (3), pp. 195-207. ISSN 1065-1438.
- Whurr, R. and Lorch, Marjorie and Lindsay, M. and Brookes, G.B. and Marsden, C.D. and Jahanshahi, M. (1998) . Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology 6 (2), pp. 81-92. ISSN 1065-1438.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Borod, J.C. and Koff, E. (1998) . Journal of Neurolinguistics 11 (1-2), pp. 103-118. ISSN 0911-6044.
- Whurr, R. and Nye, C. and Lorch, Marjorie (1998) . International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 33 (S1), pp. 327-329. ISSN 1368-2822.
- Nye, C. and Lorch, Marjorie and Whurr, R. (1997) . Brain and Language 57 (2), pp. 280-282. ISSN 0093-934X.
- Lorch, Marjorie (1995) . Aphasiology 9 (3), pp. 257-271. ISSN 0268-7038.
- Lorch, Marjorie (1995) . Aphasiology 9 (3), pp. 280-282. ISSN 0268-7038.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Meara, P. (1995) . Language Sciences 17 (1), pp. 65-71. ISSN 0388-0001.
- Whurr, R. and Lorch, Marjorie and Fontana, H. and Brookes, G.B. and Lees, A.J. and Marsden, C.D. (1993) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 56 (5), pp. 526-530. ISSN 0022-3050.
- Whurr, R. and Lorch, Marjorie and Nye, C. (1992) . European Journal of Disorders of Communication 27 (1), pp. 1-17. ISSN 0963-7273.
- Lees, A.J. and Turjanski, N. and Rivest, J. and Whurr, R. and Lorch, Marjorie and Brookes, G.B. (1992) . Journal of Neurology 239 (1), pp. 1-4. ISSN 0340-5354.
- Whurr, R. and Lorch, Marjorie (1991) . Aphasiology 5 (4-5), pp. 411-418. ISSN 0268-7038.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Whurr, R. (1991) . Grazer Linguistische Studien 35, pp. 171-179. ISSN 1015-0498.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Meara, P. (1989) . Language Sciences 11 (4), pp. 343-353. ISSN 0388-0001.
- Kohn, S.E. and Lorch, Marjorie and Pearson, D.M. (1989) . Cortex 25 (1), pp. 57-69. ISSN 0010-9452.
- Lorch, Marjorie (1989) . Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2), pp. 350-350. ISSN 0140-525X.
- Borod, J.C. and Koff, E. and Lorch, Marjorie and Nicholas, M. and Welkowitz, J. (1988) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 51 (6), pp. 826-832. ISSN 0022-3050.
- Borod, J.C. and Lorch, Marjorie and Koff, E. and Nicholas, M. (1987) . Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 9 (2), pp. 155-161. ISSN 0168-8634.
- Barod, J.C. and Koff, E. and Lorch, Marjorie and Nicholas, M. (1986) . Neuropsychologia 24 (2), pp. 169-180. ISSN 283932.
- Borod, J.C. and Koff, E. and Lorch, Marjorie and Nicholas, M. (1985) . Archives of Neurology 42 (4), pp. 345-348. ISSN 0003-9942.
- Swift, A.B. and Lorch, Marjorie (1985) . Perceptual and Motor Skills 60 (2), pp. 515-524. ISSN 0031-5125.
- Friedman, R.B. and Lorch, Marjorie (1982) . Neuropsychologia 20 (5), pp. 559-568. ISSN 0028-3932.
Book section
- Lorch, Marjorie (2023) . In: Neue Deutsche Biographie. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
- Hellal, Paula and Lorch, Marjorie (2020) . In: Hutchison, I. and Atherton, M. and Virdi, J. (eds.) Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes, Interventions, Legacies. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526145710.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2018) . In: McLelland, N. and Smith, R. (eds.) The History of Language Learning and Teaching II 19th-20th Century Europe. General Series. Oxford, UK: Legenda. ISBN 9781781886991.
- Loutrari, Ariadni and Lorch, Marjorie (2018) . In: Gouk, P. and Kennaway, J. and Prins, J. and Thormahlen, W. (eds.) Routledge Companion to Music, Mind and Well-being. Routledge Music Companions. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138057760.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Greenblatt, S. (2015) . In: Altenmuller, E.O. and Finger, S. and Boller, F. (eds.) Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives. Progress In Brain Research. New York, U.S.: Elsevier. ISBN 9780444633996.
- Li, Wei and McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa and Lorch, Marjorie (2013) . In: Li, Wei (ed.) Applied Linguistics. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 130-148. ISBN 9781405193580.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2013) . In: Li, Wei (ed.) Applied Linguistics. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 69-88. ISBN 9781405193580.
- Hellal, Paula and Lorch, Marjorie (2012) . In: Marshall, C. (ed.) Current Issues in Developmental Disorders. Current Issues in Developmental Psychology. New York, U.S.: Psychology Press. pp. 173-192. ISBN 9781848720848.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2012) . In: Jacyna, L.S. and Casper, S.T. (eds.) The Neurological Patient in History. Rochester, UK: University of Rochester Press. pp. 63-80. ISBN 9781580464123.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2010) . In: Rose, F.C. (ed.) Neurology of Music. London, UK: Imperial College Press. pp. 151-171. ISBN 9781848162686.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2009) . In: Li, Wei and Cook, V. (eds.) Linguistics for the Real World. Contemporary Applied Linguistics. London, UK: Bloomsbury. pp. 184-201. ISBN 9780826496812.
- Hellal, Paula and Lorch, Marjorie (2009) . In: Aminoff, M.J. and Boller, F. and Swaab, D.F. (eds.) History of Neurology. Handbook of Clinical Neurology. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. pp. 843-850. ISBN 9780444520159.
- Lorch, Marjorie (2007) . In: Finger, S. and Smith, C.U.M and Whitaker, H. (eds.) Brain, Mind and Medicine: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. pp. 345-352. ISBN 9780387709666.
- Barri猫re, I. and Lorch, Marjorie (2006) . In: Torrens, V. and Escobar, L. (eds.) The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages. Language Acquisition and Language Disorders. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins. pp. 23-49. ISBN 9789027253019.
- Lorch, Marjorie and Barri猫re, I. (2002) . In: Fabbro, F. (ed.) Advances in the neurolinguistics of bilingualism: essays in honor of Michel Paradis. Udine, Italy: Forum Press. pp. 193-205. ISBN 8884200741.
- Barri猫re, I. and Lorch, Marjorie and le Normand, M.T. (2001) . In: Muller, C. (ed.) Clitiques et Cliticisation: Actes du Colloque de Bordeaux. Paris, France: Honore Champion. pp. 251-265. ISBN 9782745304537.
- Barri猫re, I. and Lorch, Marjorie and Le Normand, M.T. (2000) . In: Perkins, M. and Howard, S. (eds.) New Directions in Language Development and Disorder. Springer. pp. 139-148. ISBN 9781461541578.
- Whurr, R. and Lorch, Marjorie (1999) . In: Fabbro, F. and Asher, R.E. (eds.) The Concise Encyclopedia of Language Pathology. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. pp. 384-392. ISBN 9780080431512.
- Lorch, Marjorie (1996) . In: Powell, T.W. (ed.) Pathologies of Speech and Language: Contributions of Clinical Phonetics & Linguistics. New Orleans, U.S.: International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association. pp. 297-304.
- Lorch, Marjorie (1995) . In: Kirshner, H.S. (ed.) Handbook of neurological speech and language disorders. Neurological disease and therapy. New York, U.S.: Dekker. ISBN 9780824792824.
- Lorch, Marjorie (1995) . In: Eubank, L. and Selinker, L. and Sharwood Smith, M. (eds.) The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in Honor of William E. Rutherford. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins. pp. 255-263. ISBN 9789027221520.
- Lorch, Marjorie (1990) . In: Nespoulos, J.-L. and Villiard, P. (eds.) Morphology, Phonology, and Aphasia. Springer Series in Neuropsychology. Berlin, Germany: Springer. pp. 156-184. ISBN 9781461389712.
- Lorch, Marjorie (1989) . In: Code, C. (ed.) The Characteristics of Aphasia. London, UK: Taylor and Francis. pp. 75-88. ISBN 9780850664706.
- Borod, J. and Koff, E. and Lorch, Marjorie and Nicholas, M. (1986) . In: Nespoulous, J.L. and Perron, P. and Lecours, A.R. (eds.) The Biological Foundations of Gesture: Motor and Semiotic Aspects. Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 271-294. ISBN 9780898596458.
Conference item
- Hellal, Paula and Lorch, Marjorie (2007) . British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, 2007, Manchester, UK
- Hellal, Paula and Lorch, Marjorie (2007) . International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, 2007, Los Angeles, USA
- Hellal, Paula and Lorch, Marjorie (2005) . Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, 2005, Cambridge, UK
- Hellal, Paula and Lorch, Marjorie (2005) . 10th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN), 2005, Scotland, UK
- Barri猫re, I. and Lorch, Marjorie and le Normand, M.T. (2000) . Child Language Seminar, 2000, Sheffield, UK
Editorial
- Lorch, Marjorie and Barbara, J.-G. and Stahnisch, F.W. (2020) . Frontiers in Neuroanatomy Frontiers Media. ISSN 1662-5129.