Is a lone right hemisphere enough? Neurolinguistic architecture in a case with a very early left hemispherectomy

Neurocase

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 209-231

  Danelli, Laura ^a   Cossu, Giuseppe ^b   Berlingeri, Manuela ^a   Bottini, Gabriella ^c,d   Sberna, Maurizio ^c   Paulesu, Eraldo ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^e IRCCS ISTITUTO ORTOPEDICO GALEAZZI   (Italy)

Author keywords

fMRI; Language; Left hemispherectomy; Prefrontal cortex; Reading; Visual word form area

Indexed keywords

PHENOBARBITAL;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMIANOPIA; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; PERIMETRY; PHONEME; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEIZURE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; APHASIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84879536560     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2011.654226     Document Type: Article

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