Pediatric traumatic brain injury: Language outcomes and their relationship to the arcuate fasciculus

Brain and Language

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 388-398

  Liégeois, Frédérique J ^a   Mahony, Kate ^b   Connelly, Alan ^c   Pigdon, Lauren ^d   Tournier, Jacques Donald ^c   Morgan, Angela T ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^d MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arcuate fasciculus.; Dysarthria; Expressive language; Pediatric brain injury; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; ONSET AGE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER;

ARCUATE FASCICULUS.; DYSARTHRIA; EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE; PEDIATRIC BRAIN INJURY; TRACTOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MALE;

EID: 84888034931     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.05.003     Document Type: Article

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