Variable fMRI activation during two different language tasks in a patient with cognitive delay Ativação variável da ressonância magnética funcional com duas tarefas diferentes em um paciente com retardo mental

Variable fMRI activation during two different language tasks in a patient with cognitive delay Ativação variável da ressonância magnética funcional com duas tarefas diferentes em um paciente com retardo mental

Functional MRI produces a more accurate localization of the language areas for epilepsy surgery purpose, but requires the patient cooperation. We report a 34 years-old woman with mental retardation who underwent two different verbal fluency tasks, category and word naming. We found a strong activati...

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Main Authors: Sara Escorsi-Rosset, Lauro Wichert-Ana, Marino Muxfeldt Bianchin, Tonicarlo Rodrigues Velasco, Américo C. Sakamoto, João Pereira Leite, Antonio Carlos Santos, Dráulio Barros de Araújo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2007-12-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Subjects:
ressonância magnética funcional
fMRI
linguagem
cirurgia de epilepsia
retardo mental
language
epilepsy surgery
cognitive delay
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2007000600012
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