Contemporary model of language organization: An overview for neurosurgeons

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 250-261

  Chang, Edward F ^a   Raygor, Kunal P ^a   Berger, Mitchel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Diffusion tensor imaging; Dual stream language model; Electrostimulation; Functional mapping; Wernicke's area

Indexed keywords

ARCUATE FASCICULUS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTRAOPERATIVE CORTICAL MAPPING; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MORBIDITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROSURGEON; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SUBCORTICAL FIBER MAPPING; TREATMENT PLANNING; WERNICKE AREA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EDUCATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN MAPPING; BROCA AREA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROSURGERY; WERNICKE AREA;

EID: 84926072674     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.10.JNS132647     Document Type: Review

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