Neuroimaging and recovery of language in aphasia

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 475-483

  Thompson, Cynthia K ^a   Ouden, Dirk Bart Den ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CONVALESCENCE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE;

APHASIA; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; STROKE;

EID: 58149194888     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-008-0076-0     Document Type: Article

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