Supplementary Material for: Gender and Rapid Alterations of Hemispheric Dominance during Planning Schuepbach D. Skotchko T. Duschek S. Theodoridou A. Grimm S. Boeker H. Seifritz E. 10.6084/m9.figshare.5123692.v1 https://karger.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Supplementary_Material_for_Gender_and_Rapid_Alterations_of_Hemispheric_Dominance_during_Planning/5123692 <b><i>Background:</i></b> Mental planning and carrying out a plan provoke specific cerebral hemodynamic responses. Gender aspects of hemispheric laterality using rapid cerebral hemodynamics have not been reported. <b><i>Method:</i></b> Here, we applied functional transcranial Doppler sonography to examine lateralization of cerebral hemodynamics of the middle cerebral arteries of 28 subjects (14 women and 14 men) performing a standard planning task. There were easy and difficult problems, and mental planning without motor activity was separated from movement execution. <b><i>Results:</i></b> Difficult mental planning elicited lateralization to the right hemisphere after 2 or more seconds, a feature that was not observed during movement execution. In females, there was a dominance to the left hemisphere during movement execution. Optimized problem solving yielded an increased laterality change to the right during mental planning. <b><i>Conclusions:</i></b> Gender-related hemispheric dominance appears to be condition-dependent, and change of laterality to the right may play a role in optimized performance. Results are of relevance when considering laterality from a perspective of performance enhancement of higher cognitive functions, and also of psychiatric disorders with cognitive dysfunctions and abnormal lateralization patterns such as schizophrenia. 2012-08-29 00:00:00 Gender Laterality Planning Cerebral hemodynamics Functional transcranial Doppler