The left inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus subserves language semantics: a multilevel lesion study

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1983-1995

  Almairac, Fabien ^a   Herbet, Guillaume ^b,c,d   Moritz Gasser, Sylvie ^b,c,d   de Champfleur, Nicolas Menjot ^b   Duffau, Hugues ^b,c  

^a PASTEUR HOSPITAL   (France)

^b GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

^c HÔPITAL SAINT ELOI   (France)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Diffuse low grade glioma; Inferior fronto occipital fasciculus; Language semantics; Verbal fluency; Voxel based lesion symptom mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSE LOW GRADE GLIOMA; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITOFRONTAL FASCICULUS; PARS OPERCULARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TUMOR VOLUME; VOXEL BASED LESION SYMPTOM MAPPING; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURIES; COMPLICATION; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84933178315     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0773-1     Document Type: Article

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