Onset of speech after left hemispherectomy in a nine-year-old boy

Brain

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 159-182

  Vargha Khadem, Faraneh ^a,e   Carr, Lucinda J ^a,b   Isaacs, Elizabeth ^a   Brett, Edward ^a   Adams, Christopher ^c   Mishkin, Mortimer ^d  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^e Wolfson Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congenital aphasia; Hemispherectomy; Late speech onset; Motor reorganization; Right hemisphere language

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COGNITION; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME;

EID: 0031052716     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/120.1.159     Document Type: Article

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