Diffusion imaging of cerebral white matter in persons who stutter: Evidence for network-level anomalies

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 FEB, 2014, Pages

  Cai, Shanqing ^a   Tourville, Jason A ^a   Beal, Deryk S ^b   Perkell, Joseph S ^a   Guenther, Frank H ^a   Ghosh, Satrajit S ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain connectivity; Diffusion tensor imaging; Probabilistic tractography; Regions of interest (ROIs); Speech disorders; Stuttering; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STUTTERING; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894085957     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00054     Document Type: Article

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