The latest on functional imaging studies of aphasic stroke

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 429-434

  Price, Cathy J ^a   Crinion, Jenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Degeneracy; Functional neuro imaging; Recovery; Redundancy

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; COMPREHENSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SPEECH; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 23344445720     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wco.0000168081.76859.c1     Document Type: Review

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