Interpreting and validating complexity and causality in lesion-symptom prognoses

ML Seghier, CJ Price - Brain Communications, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This paper considers the steps needed to generate pragmatic and interpretable lesion-
symptom mappings that can be used for clinically reliable prognoses. The novel …

[HTML][HTML] Anatomy of phonemic and semantic fluency: A lesion and disconnectome study in 1231 stroke patients

JM Biesbroek, JS Lim, NA Weaver, G Arikan, Y Kang… - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
Disturbances of semantic and phonemic fluency are common after brain damage, as a
manifestation of language, executive, or memory dysfunction. Lesion-symptom mapping …

Rethinking causality and data complexity in brain lesion-behaviour inference and its implications for lesion-behaviour modelling

C Sperber - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
Modelling behavioural deficits based on structural lesion imaging is a popular approach to
map functions in the human brain, and efforts to translationally apply lesion-behaviour …

A fronto-insular-parietal network for the sense of body ownership

V Moro, V Pacella, M Scandola, S Besharati… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Neuropsychological disturbances in the sense of limb ownership provide unique
opportunities to study the neurocognitive basis of body ownership. Previous small sample …

The low dimensionality of post-stroke cognitive deficits: It's the lesion anatomy!

C Sperber, L Gallucci, R Umarova - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
For years, dissociation studies on neurological single-case patients with brain lesions were
the dominant method to infer fundamental cognitive functions in neuropsychology. In …

Mapping the human praxis network: an investigation of white matter disconnection in limb apraxia of gesture production

H Rosenzopf, D Wiesen, A Basilakos… - Brain …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Left hemispheric cerebral stroke can cause apraxia, a motor cognitive disorder
characterized by deficits of higher-order motor skills such as the failure to accurately …

The strange role of brain lesion size in cognitive neuropsychology

C Sperber - Cortex, 2022 - Elsevier
The size of brain lesions is a variable that is frequently considered in cognitive
neuropsychology. In particular, lesion-deficit inference studies often control for lesion size …

The relationship between motor pathway damage and flexion-extension patterns of muscle co-excitation during walking

S Srivastava, BA Seamon, BK Marebwa… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Mass flexion-extension co-excitation patterns during walking are often seen as
a consequence of stroke, but there is limited understanding of the specific contributions of …

Disconnections in personal neglect

S Bertagnoli, V Pacella, E Rossato… - Brain Structure and …, 2022 - Springer
Personal neglect is a disorder in the perception and representation of the body that causes
the patients to behave as if the contralesional side of their body does not exist. This clinical …

French Phonological Component Analysis and aphasia recovery: A bilingual perspective on behavioral and structural data

M Masson-Trottier, T Dash, P Berroir… - Frontiers in Human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Studies show bilingualism entails an advantage in cognitive control tasks. There is evidence
of a bilingual advantage in the context of aphasia, resulting in better cognitive outcomes and …