Vulnerability of the ventral language network in children with focal epilepsy

Brain

Volumn 137, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2245-2257

  Croft, Louise J ^a   Baldeweg, Torsten ^a   Sepeta, Leigh ^b   Zimmaro, Lauren ^b   Berl, Madison M ^b,c   Gaillard, William D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; epilepsy; functional brain imaging; language processing; seizure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COGNITION; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEIZURE;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84905053923     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu154     Document Type: Article

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