Anatomical predictors of aphasia recovery: A tractography study of bilateral perisylvian language networks

Brain

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2027-2039

  Forkel, Stephanie J ^a,b   De Schotten, Michel Thiebaut ^b,c   Dell'Acqua, Flavio ^b   Kalra, Lalit ^b   Murphy, Declan G M ^b   Williams, Steven C R ^b   Catani, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

aphasia; arcuate network; diffusion tensor imaging tractography; language recovery; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; BILATERAL PERISYLVIAN LANGUAGE NETWORK; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GESCHWIND REGION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; POST STROKE LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; STROKE PATIENT; VERY ELDERLY; WERNICKE AREA; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLAUSTRUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EXTREME CAPSULE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LANGUAGE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PERISYLVIAN LANGUAGE NETWORK; PUTAMEN; REVISED WESTERN APHASIA BATTERY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; WHITE MATTER;

APHASIA; ARCUATE NETWORK; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING TRACTOGRAPHY; LANGUAGE RECOVERY; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; APHASIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 84903512549     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu113     Document Type: Article

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