Normal activation of frontotemporal language cortex in dyslexia, as measured with oxygen 15 positron emission tomography

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 27-38

  Rumsey, Judith M ^a   Hanahan, Ashley P ^a   Hamburger, Susan D ^a   Aquino, Tracy ^a   King, A Catherine ^a   Zametkin, Alan J ^b   Andreason, Paul ^b   Cohen, Robert M ^b   Pikus, Anita ^c  

^a Child Psychiatry Branch ^*  (United States)

^b Laboratory of Cerebral Metabolism   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN 15;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DYSLEXIA; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LATERALITY; MALE; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0028115663     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1994.00540130037011     Document Type: Article

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