Theta burst stimulation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex modulates pathological language switching: A case report

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 487, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 378-382

  Nardone, Raffaele ^a,b   De Blasi, Pierpaolo ^c   Bergmann, Jürgen ^d   Caleri, Francesca ^b   Tezzon, Frediano ^b   Ladurner, Gunther ^d   Golaszewski, Stefan ^a,d   Trinka, Eugen ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b FRANZ TAPPEINER HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d Christian Doppler Klinik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Language switching; Theta burst stimulation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

AGED; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STROKE; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 78650521373     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.10.060     Document Type: Article

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