Neural plasticity and treatment-induced recovery of sentence processing in agrammatism

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3211-3227

  Thompson , Cynthia K ^a   den Ouden, Dirk Bart ^a   Bonakdarpour, Borna ^a   Garibaldi, Kyla ^a   Parrish, Todd B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrammatic aphasia; Brain lesion; FMRI; Stroke; Syntax; TUF

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGRAMMATIC APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PARIETAL LOBE; SPEECH THERAPY; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 77955841430     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.06.036     Document Type: Article

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