1. Brain asymmetries - Two millennia of speculation, research and discoveries 2. Evolution of asymmetries 3. The connected hemispheres - the role of the corpus callosum for hemispheric asymmetries 4. Structural hemispheric asymmetries 5. Language and the left hemisphere 6. Handedness and other behavioral asymmetries 7. Spatial attention, neglect, and the right hemisphere 8. Recognizing yourself and others - The role of the right hemisphere for face and self-perception 9. Hemispheric asymmetries in emotion processing and social behavior 10. Ontogenesis of hemispheric asymmetries 11. Hemispheric asymmetries over the lifespan: Development and ageing 12. Sex differences in hemispheric asymmetries 13. Altered hemispheric asymmetries in neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurological disorders
