The role of the left frontal lobe in action naming rTMS evidence

Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 720-723

  Cappa, S F ^b   Sandrini, M ^a   Rossini, P M ^a,c   Sosta, K ^a   Miniussi, C ^a  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0037056361     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.59.5.720     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Miceli G, Silveri MC, Nocentini U, Caramazza A. Patterns of dissociation in comprehension and production of nouns and verbs. Aphasiology 1988;2:251-258.
2. Damasio AR, Tranel D. Nouns and verbs are retrieved with differently distributed neural systems. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1993;90:4957-4960.
3. Tranel D, Adolphs R, Damasio H, Damasio AR. A neural basis for the retrieval of words for actions. Cogn Neuropsychol 2001; 18:655-670.
4. Bak TH, O'Donovan DG, Xuereb JH, Boniface S, Hodges JR. Selective impairment of verb processing associated with pathological changes in Brodmann areas 44 and 45 in the motor neurone disease-dementia-aphasia syndrome. Brain 2001;124:103-120.
5. Daniele A, Giustolisi L, Silveri MC, Colosimo C, Gainotti G. Evidence for a possible neuroanatomical basis for lexical processing of nouns and verbs. Neuropsychologia 1994;32:1325- 1341.
6. Cappa SF, Binetti G, Pezzini A, Padovani A, Rozzini A, Trabucchi M. Object and action naming in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Neurology 1998;50:351-355.
7. Petersen SE, Fox PT, Posner MI, Mintun M, Raichle ME. Positron emission tomographic studies of the cortical anatomy of single-word processing. Nature 1988;331:585-589.
8. Bartenstein P, Weiller C, Euliz C, et al. Evaluation of brain activity during verb generation with PET and MEG. J Nucl Med 1994;33P. Abstract.
9. Martin A, Haxby JV, Lalonde FM, Wiggs CL, Ungerleider LG. Discrete cortical regions associated with knowledge of color and knowledge of action. Science 1995;270:102-105.
10. Perani D, Cappa SF, Schnur T, et al. The neural correlates of verb and noun processing. A PET study. Brain 1999;122: 2337-2344.
11. Preissl H, Pulvermuller F, Lutzenberger W, Birbaumer N. Evoked potentials distinguish between nouns and verbs. Neurosci Lett 1995;197:81-83.
12. Dehaene S. Electrophysiological evidence for category-specific word processing in the normal human brain. Neuroreport 1995;6:2153-2157.
13. Pulvermuller F, Lutzenberger W, Preissl H. Nouns and verbs in the intact brain: evidence from event-related potentials and high-frequency cortical responses. Cereb Cortex 1999;9:497-506.
14. Rossi S, Cappa SF, Babiloni C, et al. Prefrontal cortex in long-term memory: an "interference" approach using magnetic stimulation. Nat Neurosci 2001;4:948-952.
15. Walsh V, Cowey A. Transcranial magnetic stimulation and cognitive neuroscience. Nat Rev Neurosci 2000;1:73-79.
16. Bortolini U, Tagliavini C, Zampolli A. Lessico di frequenza della lingua italiana contemporanea. Milano IBM Italia 1972.
17. Miozzo A, Soardi M, Cappa SF. Pure anomia with spared action naming due to a left temporal lesion. Neuropsychologia 1994;32:1101-1109.
18. Rossini PM, Barker AT, Berardelli A, et al. Non-invasive electrical and magnetic stimulation of the brain, spinal cord and roots: basic principles and procedures for routine clinical application. Report of an IFCN committee. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1994;91:79-92.
19. Talairach J, Tournoux P. Coplanar stereotaxic atlas of the human brain. Stuttgart: Thieme, 1988.
20. Wassermann EM, Wedegaertner FR, Ziemann U, George MS, Chen R. Crossed reduction of human motor cortex excitability by 1 Hz transcranial magnetic stimulation. Neurosci Lett 1998;250:141-144.
21. Paus T, Jech R, Thompson CJ, Comeau R, Peters T, Evans AC. Transcranial magnetic stimulation during positron emission tomography: a new method for studying connectivity of the human cerebral cortex. J Neurosci 1997;17:3178-3184.
22. Tergau F, Tormos JM, Paulus W, Pascual-Leone A, Ziemann U. Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic brain stimulation on cortical and cortico-cortical excitability. Neurology 1997;48:A107. Abstract.
23. Berardelli A, Inghilleri M, Rothwell JC, et al. Facilitation of muscle evoked responses after repetitive cortical stimulation in man. Exp Brain Res;1998;122:79-84.
24. Pascual-Leone A, Pujol J, Deus J, Capdevila A, Tormos JM, Valls-Solé J. Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on motor cortex activity during a rate controlled motor task as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neurology 1997;48:A106. Abstract.
25. Bridgers SL, Delaney RC. Transcranial magnetic stimulation: an assessment of cognitive and other cerebral effects. Neurology 1989;39:417-419.
26. Duzel E, Hufnagel A, Helmstaedter C, Elger C. Verbal working memory components can be selectively influenced by transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy. Neuropsychologia 1996;34:775-783.
27. Topper R, Mottaghy F, Brugmann M, Noth J, Huber W. Facilitation of picture naming by focal transcranial magnetic stimulation of Wernicke's area. Exp Brain Res 1998;121:371-378.
28. Wassermann EM, Blaxton TA, Hoffman EA, et al. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the dominant hemisphere can disrupt visual naming in temporal lobe epilepsy patients. Neuropsychologia 1999;37:537-544.
29. Mottaghy FM, Hugs M, Brugmann M, et al. Facilitation of picture naming after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Neurology 1999;53:1806-1812.
30. Levelt WJM. Speaking. From intention to articulation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989.
31. Premack D, Woodruff G. Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? Behav Brain Sci 1978;1:515-526.
32. Gallese V, Fadiga L, Fogassi L, Rizzolatti G. Action recognition in the premotor cortex. Brain 1996;119:593-609.
33. Rizzolatti G, Fadiga L, Matelli M, et al. Localization of grasp representations in humans by PET: 1. Observation versus execution. Exp Brain Res 1996;111:246-252.
34. Decety J, Grezes J, Costes N, et al. Brain activity during observation of actions. Influence of action content and subject's strategy. Brain 1997;120:1763-1777.
35. Shapiro KA, Pascual-Leone A, Mottaghy FM, Gangitano M, Caramazza A. Grammatical distinctions in the left frontal cortex. J Cogn Neurosci 2001;13:713-720.