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16738490

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-6-1
pubmed:abstractText
Early left-hemispheric brain lesions may lead to a reorganization of language into the right hemisphere. Language functions are consecutively spared, but visuospatial functions show slight deficits. Cortical 'crowding' of the right hemisphere has been suggested as an explanation for this effect, but no direct evidence has as yet been put forward. We examined six patients with early left-hemispheric brain lesions and subsequent right-hemispheric language organization with functional magnetic resonance imaging and compared their activation patterns in a verbal and two nonverbal tasks with the patterns of six controls. In the patient group, nonverbal functions were reorganized neither interhemispherically nor intrahemispherically. Instead, verbal and nonverbal functions were mediated by a common right-hemispheric network. This argues in favour of the 'crowding hypothesis'.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0959-4965
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
26
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
929-33
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Lesion-induced right-hemispheric language and organization of nonverbal functions.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Medicine, University Children's Hospital, Tübingen, Germany. karen.lidzba@med.uni-tuebingen.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't