Association of dorsal inferior frontooccipital fasciculus fibers in the deep parietal lobe with both reading and writing processes: A brain mapping study - Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 142-148

  Motomura, Kazuya ^a   Fujii, Masazumi ^a   Maesawa, Satoshi ^b   Kuramitsu, Shunichiro ^a   Natsume, Atsushi ^a   Wakabayashi, Toshihiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Functional neurosurgery; Inferior frontooccipital fasciculus; Reading; Subcortical stimulation; Writing

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM; METHIONINE C 11;

ADULT; AGRAPHIA; ALEXIA; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DORSAL INFERIOR FRONTOOCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; READING; RECALL; SUBCORTICAL STIMULATION; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE; WHITE MATTER; WRITING;

AF = ARCUATE FASCICULUS; BRAIN MAPPING; DTI = DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FMRI = FUNCTIONAL MRI; FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY; IFOF = INFERIOR FRONTOOCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; ILF = INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; INFERIOR FRONTOOCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; MET = L-[METHYL-11C]METHIONINE; READING; ROI = REGION OF INTEREST; SLF = SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; SLTA = STANDARD LANGUAGE TEST OF APHASIA; SUBCORTICAL STIMULATION; VWFA = VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; WAIS-III = WECHSLER ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE, 3RD EDITION; WMS-R = WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE-REVISED; WRITING;

BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; READING; WRITING;

EID: 84903904269     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.2.JNS131234     Document Type: Article

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