Temporal lobe white matter asymmetry and language laterality in epilepsy patients

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2033-2044

  Ellmore, Timothy M ^a,b   Beauchamp, Michael S ^a   Breier, Joshua I ^a   Slater, Jeremy D ^a   Kalamangalam, Giridhar P ^a   O'Neill, Thomas J ^a   Disano, Michael A ^a   Tandon, Nitin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Arcuate fasciculus; Broca's area; Diffusion tensor imaging; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Handedness; Inferior longitudinal fasciculus; Inferior occipitofrontal fasciculus; Language; Laterality; Uncinate fasciculus; Wada (sodium Amytal) test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; WADA TEST; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71849115147     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.055     Document Type: Article

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