Altered effective connectivity and anomalous anatomy in the basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuit of stuttering speakers

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-67

  Lu, Chunming ^a   Peng, Danling ^a   Chen, Chuansheng ^b   Ning, Ning ^a,c   Ding, Guosheng ^a   Li, Kuncheng ^d   Yang, Yanhui ^d   Lin, Chunlan ^e  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Stuttering Therapy Center   (China)

Author keywords

Effective connectivity; SEM; Stuttering; VBM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PUTAMEN; STUTTERING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STUTTERING; THALAMUS;

EID: 70649095039     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.02.017     Document Type: Article

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