Brain imaging in the assessment for epilepsy surgery

JS Duncan, GP Winston, MJ Koepp… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Brain imaging has a crucial role in the presurgical assessment of patients with epilepsy.
Structural imaging reveals most cerebral lesions underlying focal epilepsy. Advances in MRI …

Imaging in the surgical treatment of epilepsy

JS Duncan - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2010 - nature.com
Medically refractory focal epilepsy is potentially curable by surgery. This Review considers
the application of recent advances in structural and functional brain imaging to increase the …

Action concepts in the brain: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis

CE Watson, ER Cardillo, GR Ianni… - Journal of cognitive …, 2013 - direct.mit.edu
Many recent neuroimaging studies have investigated the representation of semantic
memory for actions in the brain. We used activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta …

Measuring language lateralisation with different language tasks: a systematic review

AR Bradshaw, PA Thompson, AC Wilson, DVM Bishop… - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
Language lateralisation refers to the phenomenon in which one hemisphere (typically the
left) shows greater involvement in language functions than the other. Measurement of …

Neural correlates of verb fluency performance in cognitively healthy older adults and individuals with dementia: a pilot fMRI study

EJ Paek, LL Murray, SD Newman - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Currently there are~ 6 million Americans who are affected by dementia. Verbal fluency tasks
have been commonly and frequently utilized to document the disease progression in many …

Resting‐state functional connectivity predicts the strength of hemispheric lateralization for language processing in temporal lobe epilepsy and normals

GE Doucet, D Pustina, C Skidmore… - Human brain …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), determining the hemispheric specialization for language
before surgery is critical to preserving a patient's cognitive abilities post‐surgery. To date …

Language mapping using fMRI and direct cortical stimulation for brain tumor surgery: the good, the bad, and the questionable

NP Brennan, KK Peck, A Holodny - Topics in Magnetic …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Language functional magnetic resonance imaging for neurosurgical planning is a
useful but nuanced technique. Consideration of primary and secondary language anatomy …

Task-dependent and polarity-specific effects of prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation on cortical activation during word fluency

AC Ehlis, FB Haeussinger, A Gastel, AJ Fallgatter… - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
Targeted modulation of cortical functions by non-invasive brain stimulation is widely used for
the investigation of the neurophysiological signatures of executive functions and put forward …

Contribution of NIRS to the study of prefrontal cortex for verbal fluency in aging

K Kahlaoui, G Di Sante, J Barbeau, M Maheux… - Brain and language, 2012 - Elsevier
Healthy aging is characterized by a number of changes on brain structure and function.
Several neuroimaging studies have shown an age-related reduction in hemispheric …

[HTML][HTML] A new functional magnetic resonance imaging localizer for preoperative language mapping using a sentence completion task: Validity, choice of baseline …

K Elin, S Malyutina, O Bronov, E Stupina… - Frontiers in Human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
To avoid post-neurosurgical language deficits, intraoperative mapping of the language
function in the brain can be complemented with preoperative mapping with fMRI. The validity …