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Vinci-Booher S, McDonald DJ, Berquist E, Pestilli F. Associative white matter tracts selectively predict sensorimotor learning. Commun Biol 2024; 7:762. [PMID: 38909103 PMCID: PMC11193801 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06420-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2023] [Accepted: 06/06/2024] [Indexed: 06/24/2024] Open
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Human learning varies greatly among individuals and is related to the microstructure of major white matter tracts in several learning domains, yet the impact of the existing microstructure of white matter tracts on future learning outcomes remains unclear. We employed a machine-learning model selection framework to evaluate whether existing microstructure might predict individual differences in learning a sensorimotor task, and further, if the mapping between tract microstructure and learning was selective for learning outcomes. We used diffusion tractography to measure the mean fractional anisotropy (FA) of white matter tracts in 60 adult participants who then practiced drawing a set of 40 unfamiliar symbols repeatedly using a digital writing tablet. We measured drawing learning as the slope of draw duration over the practice session and measured visual recognition learning for the symbols using an old/new 2-AFC task. Results demonstrated that tract microstructure selectively predicted learning outcomes, with left hemisphere pArc and SLF3 tracts predicting drawing learning and the left hemisphere MDLFspl predicting visual recognition learning. These results were replicated using repeat, held-out data and supported with complementary analyses. Results suggest that individual differences in the microstructure of human white matter tracts may be selectively related to future learning outcomes.
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- S Vinci-Booher
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Program for Neuroscience, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
- Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Program for Neuroscience, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Program for Neuroscience, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
- Department of Psychology, Center for Perceptual Systems, Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, Center for Aging Populations Sciences, Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
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Sufianov A, Gonzalez-Lopez P, Simfukwe K, Martorell-Llobregat C, Iakimov IA, Sufianov RA, Mastronardi L, Borba LAB, Rangel CC, Forlizzi V, Campero A, Baldoncini M. Clinical and anatomical analysis of the epileptogenic spread patterns in focal cortical dysplasia patients. Surg Neurol Int 2023; 14:291. [PMID: 37680931 PMCID: PMC10481808 DOI: 10.25259/sni_210_2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023] Open
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Background Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is one of the main causes of intractable epilepsy, which is amendable by surgery. During the surgical management of FCD, the understanding of its epileptogenic foci, interconnections, and spreading pathways is crucial for attaining a good postoperative seizure free outcome. Methods We retrospectively evaluated 54 FCD patients operated in Federal Center of Neurosurgery, Tyumen, Russia. The electroencephalogram findings were correlated to the involved brain anatomical areas. Subsequently, we analyzed the main white matter tracts implicated during the epileptogenic spreading in some representative cases. We prepared 10 human hemispheres using Klinger's method and dissected them through the fiber dissection technique. Results The clinical results were displayed and the main white matter tracts implicated in the seizure spread were described in 10 patients. Respective FCD foci, interconnections, and ectopic epileptogenic areas in each patient were discussed. Conclusion A strong understanding of the main implicated tracts in epileptogenic spread in FCD patient remains cardinal for neurosurgeons dealing with epilepsy. To achieve meaningful seizure freedom, despite the focal lesion resection, the interconnections and tracts should be understood and somehow disconnected to stop the spreading.
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- Albert Sufianov
- Department of Neurosurgery, Federal Center of Neurosurgery, Tyumen, Russian Federation
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Department of Neurosurgery, First Moscow Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Department of Neurosurgery, First Moscow Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Department of Neurosurgery, First Moscow Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Mackenzie Evangelical University Hospital, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Institute of Security and Social Services for State Workers (ISSSTE), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratory of Microsurgical Neuroanatomy, Second Chair of Gross Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Padilla de Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina
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- Department of Neurosurgery, San Fernando Hospital, San Fernando, Argentina
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Vinci-Booher S, McDonald DJ, Berquist E, Pestilli F. Associative white matter tracts selectively predict sensorimotor learning. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.01.10.523345. [PMID: 37131816 PMCID: PMC10153388 DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.10.523345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Human learning is a complex phenomenon that varies greatly among individuals and is related to the microstructure of major white matter tracts in several learning domains, yet the impact of the existing myelination of white matter tracts on future learning outcomes remains unclear. We employed a machine-learning model selection framework to evaluate whether existing microstructure might predict individual differences in the potential for learning a sensorimotor task, and further, if the mapping between the microstructure of major white matter tracts and learning was selective for learning outcomes. We used diffusion tractography to measure the mean fractional anisotropy (FA) of white matter tracts in 60 adult participants who then underwent training and subsequent testing to evaluate learning. During training, participants practiced drawing a set of 40 novel symbols repeatedly using a digital writing tablet. We measured drawing learning as the slope of draw duration over the practice session and visual recognition learning as the performance accuracy in an old/new 2-AFC recognition task. Results demonstrated that the microstructure of major white matter tracts selectively predicted learning outcomes, with left hemisphere pArc and SLF 3 tracts predicting drawing learning and the left hemisphere MDLFspl predicting visual recognition learning. These results were replicated in a repeat, held-out data set and supported with complementary analyses. Overall, results suggest that individual differences in the microstructure of human white matter tracts may be selectively related to future learning outcomes and open avenues of inquiry concerning the impact of existing tract myelination in the potential for learning. Significance statement A selective mapping between tract microstructure and future learning has been demonstrated in the murine model and, to our knowledge, has not yet been demonstrated in humans. We employed a data-driven approach that identified only two tracts, the two most posterior segments of the arcuate fasciculus in the left hemisphere, to predict learning a sensorimotor task (drawing symbols) and this prediction model did not transfer to other learning outcomes (visual symbol recognition). Results suggest that individual differences in learning may be selectively related to the tissue properties of major white matter tracts in the human brain.
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Hodology of the superior longitudinal system of the human brain: a historical perspective, the current controversies, and a proposal. Brain Struct Funct 2021; 226:1363-1384. [PMID: 33881634 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02265-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2020] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The description of human white matter pathways experienced a tremendous improvement, thanks to the advancement of neuroimaging and dissection techniques. The downside of this progress is the production of redundant and conflicting literature, bound by specific studies' methods and aims. The Superior Longitudinal System (SLS), encompassing the arcuate (AF) and the superior longitudinal fasciculi (SLF), becomes an illustrative example of this fundamental issue, being one of the most studied white matter association pathways of the brain. Herein, we provide a complete illustration of this white matter fiber system's current definition, from its early descriptions in the nineteenth century to its most recent characterizations. We propose a review of both in vivo diffusion magnetic resonance imaging-based tractography and anatomical dissection studies, enclosing all the information available up to date. Based on these findings, we reconstruct the wiring diagram of the SLS, highlighting a substantial variability in the description of its cortical sites of termination and the taxonomy and partonomy that characterize the system. We aim to level up discrepancies in the literature by proposing a parallel across the various nomenclature. Consistent with the topographical arrangement already documented for commissural and projection pathways, we suggest approaching the SLS organization as an orderly and continuous wiring diagram, respecting a medio-lateral palisading topography between the different frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal gyri rather than in terms of individualized fascicles. A better and complete description of the fine organization of white matter association pathways' connectivity is fundamental for a better understanding of brain function and their clinical and neurosurgical applications.
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Bernard F, Lemee JM, Mazerand E, Leiber LM, Menei P, Ter Minassian A. The ventral attention network: the mirror of the language network in the right brain hemisphere. J Anat 2020; 237:632-642. [PMID: 32579719 DOI: 10.1111/joa.13223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Revised: 04/28/2020] [Accepted: 05/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Resting-state functional MRI (RfMRI) analyses have identified two anatomically separable fronto-parietal attention networks in the human brain: a bilateral dorsal attention network and a right-lateralised ventral attention network (VAN). The VAN has been implicated in visuospatial cognition and, thus, potentially in the unilateral spatial neglect associated with right hemisphere lesions. Its parietal, frontal and temporal endpoints are thought to be structurally supported by undefined white matter tracts. We investigated the white matter tract connecting the VAN. We used three approaches to study the structural anatomy of the VAN: (a) independent component analysis on RfMRI (50 subjects), defining the endpoints of the VAN, (b) tractography in the same 50 healthy volunteers, with regions of interest defined by the MNI coordinates of cortical areas involved in the VAN used in a seed-based approach and (c) dissection, by Klingler's method, of 20 right hemispheres, for ex vivo studies of the fibre tracts connecting VAN endpoints. The VAN includes the temporoparietal junction and the ventral frontal cortex. The endpoints of the superior longitudinal fasciculus in its third portion (SLF III) and the arcuate fasciculus (AF) overlap with the VAN endpoints. The SLF III connects the supramarginal gyrus to the ventral portion of the precentral gyrus and the pars opercularis. The AF connects the middle and inferior temporal gyrus and the middle and inferior frontal gyrus. We reconstructed the structural connectivity of the VAN and considered it in the context if the pathophysiology of unilateral neglect and right hemisphere awake brain surgery.
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- Florian Bernard
- Laboratory of Anatomy, Faculté de Médecine, Angers, France.,Department of Neurosurgery, Angers Teaching Hospital, Angers, France.,UMR 1232 INSERM/CNRS and EA7315 Team, CRCINA, Angers, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Angers Teaching Hospital, Angers, France.,UMR 1232 INSERM/CNRS and EA7315 Team, CRCINA, Angers, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Angers Teaching Hospital, Angers, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Angers Teaching Hospital, Angers, France.,UMR 1232 INSERM/CNRS and EA7315 Team, CRCINA, Angers, France
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- Department of Reanimation, Angers Teaching Hospital, Angers, France.,EA7315 Team, INSERM 1066, Angers, France
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Berthier ML, Dávila G, Torres-Prioris MJ, Moreno-Torres I, Clarimón J, Dols-Icardo O, Postigo MJ, Fernández V, Edelkraut L, Moreno-Campos L, Molina-Sánchez D, de Zaldivar PS, López-Barroso D. Developmental Dynamic Dysphasia: Are Bilateral Brain Abnormalities a Signature of Inefficient Neural Plasticity? Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:73. [PMID: 32265672 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The acquisition and evolution of speech production, discourse and communication can be negatively impacted by brain malformations. We describe, for the first time, a case of developmental dynamic dysphasia (DDD) in a right-handed adolescent boy (subject D) with cortical malformations involving language-eloquent regions (inferior frontal gyrus) in both the left and the right hemispheres. Language evaluation revealed a markedly reduced verbal output affecting phonemic and semantic fluency, phrase and sentence generation and verbal communication in everyday life. Auditory comprehension, repetition, naming, reading and spelling were relatively preserved, but executive function was impaired. Multimodal neuroimaging showed a malformed cerebral cortex with atypical configuration and placement of white matter tracts bilaterally and abnormal callosal fibers. Dichotic listening showed right hemisphere dominance for language, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) additionally revealed dissociated hemispheric language representation with right frontal activation for phonology and bilateral dominance for semantic processing. Moreover, subject D also had congenital mirror movements (CMM), defined as involuntary movements of one side of the body that mirror intentional movements of the other side. Transcranial magnetic stimulation and fMRI during voluntary unimanual (left and right) hand movements showed bilateral motor cortex recruitment and tractography revealed a lack of decussation of bilateral corticospinal tracts. Genetic testing aimed to detect mutations that disrupt the development of commissural tracts correlating with CMM (e.g., Germline DCC mutations) was negative. Overall, our findings suggest that DDD in subject D resulted from the underdevelopment of the left inferior frontal gyrus with limited capacity for plastic reorganization by its homologous counterpart in the right hemisphere. Corpus callosum anomalies probably contributed to hinder interhemispheric connectivity necessary to compensate language and communication deficits after left frontal involvement.
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- Marcelo L Berthier
- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain
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- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain.,Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain
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- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain.,Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain
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- Department of Neurology and Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Center for Networked Biomedical Research into Neurodegenerative Diseases, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Neurology and Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Center for Networked Biomedical Research into Neurodegenerative Diseases, Madrid, Spain
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- Neurophysiology Unit, Regional University Hospital Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain
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- Neurophysiology Unit, Regional University Hospital Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain
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- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain.,Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain
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- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain
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- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain
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- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain
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- Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia Unit, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain.,Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain
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Bernard F, Zemmoura I, Ter Minassian A, Lemée JM, Menei P. Anatomical variability of the arcuate fasciculus: a systematical review. Surg Radiol Anat 2019; 41:889-900. [PMID: 31028450 DOI: 10.1007/s00276-019-02244-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2018] [Accepted: 04/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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PURPOSE The arcuate fasciculus (AF) is a white matter fibers tract that links the lateral temporal with the frontal cortex. The AF can be divided into three components: two superficial indirect short tracts (anterior and posterior) and one deep direct long tract. Both DTI and white matter dissections studies find differences regarding the anatomy of the AF, especially its cortical connections. This paper aims at providing a comprehensive anatomical classification of the AF, using the terminologia anatomica. METHODS Articles (n = 478) were obtained from a systematical PRISMA review. Studies which focused on primates, unhealthy subjects, as well as studies without cortical termination description and review articles were excluded from the analysis. One hundred and ten articles were retained for full-text examination, of which 19 finally fulfilled our criteria to be included in this review. RESULTS We classified main descriptions and variations of each segment of the AF according to fiber orientation and cortical connections. Three types of connections were depicted for each segment of the AF. Concerning the anterior segment, most of the frontal fibers (59.35%) ran from the ventral portion of the precentral gyrus and the posterior part of the pars opercularis, to the supramarginal gyrus (85.0%). Main fibers of the posterior segment of the AF ran from the posterior portion of the middle temporal gyrus (100%) to the angular gyrus (92.0%). In main descriptions of the long segment of the AF, fibers ran from both the ventral portion of the precentral gyrus and posterior part of the pars opercularis (63.9%) to the middle and inferior temporal gyrus (60.3%). Minor subtypes were described in detail in the article. CONCLUSION We provide a comprehensive classification of the anatomy of the AF, regarding the orientation and cortical connections of its fibers. Although fiber orientation is very consistent, cortical endings of the AF may be different from one study to another, or from one individual to another which is a key element to understand the anatomical basis of current models of language or to guide intraoperative stimulation during awake surgery.
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- Florian Bernard
- , Department of Neurosurgery, Teaching Hospital, 49100, Angers, France. .,Laboratory of Anatomy, Medical Faculty, 28 rue Roger Amsler, 49100, Angers, France.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, CHRU de Tours, Tours, France.,UMR1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, France
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- Department of Reanimation, Teaching Hospital, 49100, Angers, France.,INSERM, 1066 Department and EA7315 Team, Angers, France
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- , Department of Neurosurgery, Teaching Hospital, 49100, Angers, France.,CRCINA, UMR 1232 INSERM/CNRS and EA7315 Team, Angers, France
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- , Department of Neurosurgery, Teaching Hospital, 49100, Angers, France.,CRCINA, UMR 1232 INSERM/CNRS and EA7315 Team, Angers, France
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Mandonnet E, Sarubbo S, Petit L. The Nomenclature of Human White Matter Association Pathways: Proposal for a Systematic Taxonomic Anatomical Classification. Front Neuroanat 2018; 12:94. [PMID: 30459566 PMCID: PMC6232419 DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2018.00094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 10/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The heterogeneity and complexity of white matter (WM) pathways of the human brain were discretely described by pioneers such as Willis, Stenon, Malpighi, Vieussens and Vicq d'Azyr up to the beginning of the 19th century. Subsequently, novel approaches to the gross dissection of brain internal structures have led to a new understanding of WM organization, notably due to the works of Reil, Gall and Burdach highlighting the fascicular organization of WM. Meynert then proposed a definitive tripartite organization in association, commissural and projection WM pathways. The enduring anatomical work of Dejerine at the turn of the 20th century describing WM pathways in detail has been the paramount authority on this topic (including its terminology) for over a century, enriched sporadically by studies based on blunt Klingler dissection. Currently, diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) is used to reveal the WM fiber tracts of the human brain in vivo by measuring the diffusion of water molecules, especially along axons. It is then possible by tractography to reconstitute the WM pathways of the human brain step by step at an unprecedented level of precision in large cohorts. However, tractography algorithms, although powerful, still face the complexity of the organization of WM pathways, and there is a crucial need to benefit from the exact definitions of the trajectories and endings of all WM fascicles. Beyond such definitions, the emergence of DWI-based tractography has mostly revealed strong heterogeneity in naming the different bundles, especially the long-range association pathways. This review addresses the various terminologies known for the WM association bundles, aiming to describe the rules of arrangements followed by these bundles and to propose a new nomenclature based on the structural wiring diagram of the human brain.
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Structural and Functional Connectivity Lab, Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari (APSS), Trento, Italy
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- Groupe d’Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives—UMR 5293, CNRS, CEA University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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Bernard F, Lemée JM, Ter Minassian A, Menei P. Right Hemisphere Cognitive Functions: From Clinical and Anatomic Bases to Brain Mapping During Awake Craniotomy Part I: Clinical and Functional Anatomy. World Neurosurg 2018; 118:348-359. [PMID: 29763748 DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2018.05.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2018] [Revised: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The nondominant hemisphere (usually the right) is responsible for primary cognitive functions such as visuospatial and social cognition. Awake surgery using direct electric stimulation for right cerebral tumor removal remains challenging because of the complexity of the functional anatomy and difficulties in adapting standard bedside tasks to awake surgery conditions. An understanding of semiology and anatomic bases, along with an analysis of the available cognitive tasks for visuospatial and social cognition per operative mapping allow neurosurgeons to better appreciate the functional anatomy of the right hemisphere and its relevance to tumor surgery. In this article, the first of a 2-part review, we discuss the anatomic and functional basis of right hemisphere function. Whereas part II of the review focuses primarily on semiology and surgical management of right-sided tumors under awake conditions, this article provides a comprehensive review of knowledge underpinning awake surgery on the right hemisphere.
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- Florian Bernard
- Service de Neurochirurgie, CHU d'Angers, Angers, France; Laboratoire d'Anatomie, Faculté de Médecine d'Angers, Angers, France
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- Service de Neurochirurgie, CHU d'Angers, Angers, France; CRCINA, INSERM, Université de Nantes, Université d'Angers, Angers, France
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- Département d'Anesthésie-Réanimation, CHU d'Angers, Angers, France; LARIS EA 7315, Image Signal et Sciences du Vivant, Angers Teaching Hospital, Angers, France
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- Service de Neurochirurgie, CHU d'Angers, Angers, France; CRCINA, INSERM, Université de Nantes, Université d'Angers, Angers, France.
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Nakamura J, Kita Y, Ikuno K, Kojima K, Okada Y, Shomoto K. Influence of the stimulus parameters of galvanic vestibular stimulation on unilateral spatial neglect. Neuroreport 2015; 26:462-6. [DOI: 10.1097/wnr.0000000000000369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Bilateral dorsal and ventral fiber pathways for the processing of affective prosody identified by probabilistic fiber tracking. Neuroimage 2015; 109:27-34. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2014] [Revised: 12/31/2014] [Accepted: 01/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Hecht EE, Gutman DA, Bradley BA, Preuss TM, Stout D. Virtual dissection and comparative connectivity of the superior longitudinal fasciculus in chimpanzees and humans. Neuroimage 2015; 108:124-37. [PMID: 25534109 PMCID: PMC4324003 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.12.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2014] [Revised: 12/03/2014] [Accepted: 12/08/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Many of the behavioral capacities that distinguish humans from other primates rely on fronto-parietal circuits. The superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) is the primary white matter tract connecting lateral frontal with lateral parietal regions; it is distinct from the arcuate fasciculus, which interconnects the frontal and temporal lobes. Here we report a direct, quantitative comparison of SLF connectivity using virtual in vivo dissection of the SLF in chimpanzees and humans. SLF I, the superior-most branch of the SLF, showed similar patterns of connectivity between humans and chimpanzees, and was proportionally volumetrically larger in chimpanzees. SLF II, the middle branch, and SLF III, the inferior-most branch, showed species differences in frontal connectivity. In humans, SLF II showed greater connectivity with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, whereas in chimps SLF II showed greater connectivity with the inferior frontal gyrus. SLF III was right-lateralized and proportionally volumetrically larger in humans, and human SLF III showed relatively reduced connectivity with dorsal premotor cortex and greater extension into the anterior inferior frontal gyrus, especially in the right hemisphere. These results have implications for the evolution of fronto-parietal functions including spatial attention to observed actions, social learning, and tool use, and are in line with previous research suggesting a unique role for the right anterior inferior frontal gyrus in the evolution of human fronto-parietal network architecture.
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- Erin E Hecht
- Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 1557 Dickey Drive, Rm 114, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine, 36 Eagle Row, PAIS Building, 5th Floor South, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Laver Building, North Park Road, Exeter EX4 4QE, UK.
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- Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Div. Neuropharmacology & Neurologic Diseases & Center for Translational Social Neuroscience, Emory University, 954 Gatewood Rd., Atlanta, GA 30329, USA.
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- Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 1557 Dickey Drive, Rm 114, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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Cammoun L, Thiran JP, Griffa A, Meuli R, Hagmann P, Clarke S. Intrahemispheric cortico-cortical connections of the human auditory cortex. Brain Struct Funct 2014; 220:3537-53. [PMID: 25173473 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0872-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2014] [Accepted: 08/06/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The human auditory cortex comprises the supratemporal plane and large parts of the temporal and parietal convexities. We have investigated the relevant intrahemispheric cortico-cortical connections using in vivo DSI tractography combined with landmark-based registration, automatic cortical parcellation and whole-brain structural connection matrices in 20 right-handed male subjects. On the supratemporal plane, the pattern of connectivity was related to the architectonically defined early-stage auditory areas. It revealed a three-tier architecture characterized by a cascade of connections from the primary auditory cortex to six adjacent non-primary areas and from there to the superior temporal gyrus. Graph theory-driven analysis confirmed the cascade-like connectivity pattern and demonstrated a strong degree of segregation and hierarchy within early-stage auditory areas. Putative higher-order areas on the temporal and parietal convexities had more widely spread local connectivity and long-range connections with the prefrontal cortex; analysis of optimal community structure revealed five distinct modules in each hemisphere. The pattern of temporo-parieto-frontal connectivity was partially asymmetrical. In conclusion, the human early-stage auditory cortical connectivity, as revealed by in vivo DSI tractography, has strong similarities with that of non-human primates. The modular architecture and hemispheric asymmetry in higher-order regions is compatible with segregated processing streams and lateralization of cognitive functions.
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- Leila Cammoun
- Service de Neuropsychologie et de Neuroréhabilitation, CHUV, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Service de Radiodiagnostic et Radiologie Interventionnelle, CHUV, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Service de Radiodiagnostic et Radiologie Interventionnelle, CHUV, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Service de Neuropsychologie et de Neuroréhabilitation, CHUV, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Hopper AP, Dugan JM, Gill AA, Fox OJL, May PW, Haycock JW, Claeyssens F. Amine functionalized nanodiamond promotes cellular adhesion, proliferation and neurite outgrowth. Biomed Mater 2014; 9:045009. [PMID: 25029630 DOI: 10.1088/1748-6041/9/4/045009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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In this study, we report the production of amine functionalized nanodiamond. The amine functionalized nanodiamond forms a conformal monolayer on a negatively charged surface produced via plasma polymerization of acrylic acid. Nanodiamond terminated surfaces were studied as substrates for neuronal cell culture. NG108-15 neuroblastoma-glioma hybrid cells were successfully cultured upon amine functionalized nanodiamond coated surfaces for between 1 and 7 d. Additionally, primary dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons and Schwann cells isolated from Wistar rats were also successfully cultured over a period of 21 d illustrating the potential of the coating for applications in the treatment of peripheral nerve injury.
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- A P Hopper
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Broad Lane, Sheffield, S3 7HQ, UK
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AbstractThe relevance of anatomical connectivity for understanding of the neural basis of language was recognized in the 19th century, and yet this topic has only recently become the subject of wider research interest. In this paper, I review recent findings on white matter tracts implicated in language: the arcuate fasciculus, superior longitudinal fasciculus, extreme capsule, uncinate fasciculus, middle longitudinal fasciculus, inferior longitudinal fasciculus, and inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus. The reviewed findings on these tracts were reported in studies that used a variety of methods, from post-mortem dissection and diffusion imaging to intraoperative electrostimulation with awake surgery patients. The emerging picture suggests that there is currently no consensus with regard to the exact number and identity of the tracts supporting language, their origins, trajectories, and terminations, as well as their functional interpretation.
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Berthier ML, Froudist Walsh S, Dávila G, Nabrozidis A, Juárez Y Ruiz de Mier R, Gutiérrez A, De-Torres I, Ruiz-Cruces R, Alfaro F, García-Casares N. Dissociated repetition deficits in aphasia can reflect flexible interactions between left dorsal and ventral streams and gender-dimorphic architecture of the right dorsal stream. Front Hum Neurosci 2013; 7:873. [PMID: 24391569 PMCID: PMC3867969 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2013] [Accepted: 11/29/2013] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Assessment of brain-damaged subjects presenting with dissociated repetition deficits after selective injury to either the left dorsal or ventral auditory pathways can provide further insight on their respective roles in verbal repetition. We evaluated repetition performance and its neural correlates using multimodal imaging (anatomical MRI, DTI, fMRI, and18FDG-PET) in a female patient with transcortical motor aphasia (TCMA) and in a male patient with conduction aphasia (CA) who had small contiguous but non-overlapping left perisylvian infarctions. Repetition in the TCMA patient was fully preserved except for a mild impairment in nonwords and digits, whereas the CA patient had impaired repetition of nonwords, digits and word triplet lists. Sentence repetition was impaired, but he repeated novel sentences significantly better than clichés. The TCMA patient had tissue damage and reduced metabolism in the left sensorimotor cortex and insula. DTI showed damage to the left temporo-frontal and parieto-frontal segments of the arcuate fasciculus (AF) and part of the left ventral stream together with well-developed right dorsal and ventral streams, as has been reported in more than one-third of females. The CA patient had tissue damage and reduced metabolic activity in the left temporoparietal cortex with additional metabolic decrements in the left frontal lobe. DTI showed damage to the left temporo-parietal and temporo-frontal segments of the AF, but the ventral stream was spared. The direct segment of the AF in the right hemisphere was also absent with only vestigial remains of the other dorsal subcomponents present, as is often found in males. fMRI during word and nonword repetition revealed bilateral perisylvian activation in the TCMA patient suggesting recruitment of spared segments of the left dorsal stream and right dorsal stream with propagation of signals to temporal lobe structures suggesting a compensatory reallocation of resources via the ventral streams. The CA patient showed a greater activation of these cortical areas than the TCMA patient, but these changes did not result in normal performance. Repetition of word triplet lists activated bilateral perisylvian cortices in both patients, but activation in the CA patient with very poor performance was restricted to small frontal and posterior temporal foci bilaterally. These findings suggest that dissociated repetition deficits in our cases are probably reliant on flexible interactions between left dorsal stream (spared segments, short tracts remains) and left ventral stream and on gender-dimorphic architecture of the right dorsal stream.
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- Marcelo L Berthier
- Unit of Cognitive Neurology an Aphasia, Department of Medicine, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, University of Malaga Malaga, Spain
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's Health Partners, King's College London London, UK
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- Unit of Cognitive Neurology an Aphasia, Department of Medicine, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, University of Malaga Malaga, Spain ; Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Comportamental Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, University of Malaga Malaga, Spain
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- Unit of Molecular Imaging, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, General Foundation of the University of Malaga Malaga, Spain
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- Unit of Cognitive Neurology an Aphasia, Department of Medicine, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, University of Malaga Malaga, Spain
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- Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Comportamental Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, University of Malaga Malaga, Spain
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- Unit of Cognitive Neurology an Aphasia, Department of Medicine, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, University of Malaga Malaga, Spain
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- Unit of Cognitive Neurology an Aphasia, Department of Medicine, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, University of Malaga Malaga, Spain
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- Unit of Molecular Imaging, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias, General Foundation of the University of Malaga Malaga, Spain
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Axer H, Klingner CM, Prescher A. Fiber anatomy of dorsal and ventral language streams. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2013; 127:192-204. [PMID: 22632814 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2012] [Revised: 04/05/2012] [Accepted: 04/23/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Recent advances in neuroimaging have led to new insights into the organization of language related networks. Increasing evidence supports the model of dorsal and ventral streams of information flow between language-related areas. Therefore, a review of the descriptions of language-related fiber anatomy in the human and monkey brain was performed. In addition, case studies of macroscopical fiber dissection and polarized light imaging (PLI) with special focus on the ventral stream were done. Several fiber structures can be identified to play a role in language, i.e. the arcuate fasciculus as a part of the superior longitudinal fasciculus, the middle longitudinal fasciculus, the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, and extreme and external capsules. Substantial differences between human and monkey fiber architecture have been identified. Despite inconsistencies based on different terminologies used, there can be no doubt that dorsal and ventral language streams have a clear correlation in the structure of white matter tracts.
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- Hubertus Axer
- Hans Berger Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
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De-Torres I, Dávila G, Berthier ML, Walsh SF, Moreno-Torres I, Ruiz-Cruces R. Repeating with the right hemisphere: reduced interactions between phonological and lexical-semantic systems in crossed aphasia? Front Hum Neurosci 2013; 7:675. [PMID: 24151460 PMCID: PMC3798981 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2013] [Accepted: 09/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Knowledge on the patterns of repetition amongst individuals who develop language deficits in association with right hemisphere lesions (crossed aphasia) is very limited. Available data indicate that repetition in some crossed aphasics experiencing phonological processing deficits is not heavily influenced by lexical-semantic variables (lexicality, imageability, and frequency) as is regularly reported in phonologically-impaired cases with left hemisphere damage. Moreover, in view of the fact that crossed aphasia is rare, information on the role of right cortical areas and white matter tracts underpinning language repetition deficits is scarce. In this study, repetition performance was assessed in two patients with crossed conduction aphasia and striatal/capsular vascular lesions encompassing the right arcuate fasciculus (AF) and inferior frontal-occipital fasciculus (IFOF), the temporal stem and the white matter underneath the supramarginal gyrus. Both patients showed lexicality effects repeating better words than non-words, but manipulation of other lexical-semantic variables exerted less influence on repetition performance. Imageability and frequency effects, production of meaning-based paraphrases during sentence repetition, or better performance on repeating novel sentences than overlearned clichés were hardly ever observed in these two patients. In one patient, diffusion tensor imaging disclosed damage to the right long direct segment of the AF and IFOF with relative sparing of the anterior indirect and posterior segments of the AF, together with fully developed left perisylvian white matter pathways. These findings suggest that striatal/capsular lesions extending into the right AF and IFOF in some individuals with right hemisphere language dominance are associated with atypical repetition patterns which might reflect reduced interactions between phonological and lexical-semantic processes.
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- Irene De-Torres
- Unit of Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia, Centro de Investigaciones, Médico-Sanitarias, University of MálagaMalaga, Spain
- Unit of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Carlos Haya University HospitalMalaga, Spain
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- Unit of Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia, Centro de Investigaciones, Médico-Sanitarias, University of MálagaMalaga, Spain
- Psychobiology Area, Faculty of Psychology, University of MálagaMalaga, Spain
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- Unit of Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia, Centro de Investigaciones, Médico-Sanitarias, University of MálagaMalaga, Spain
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- Unit of Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia, Centro de Investigaciones, Médico-Sanitarias, University of MálagaMalaga, Spain
- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's Health PartnersKing's College London, UK
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- Unit of Cognitive Neurology and Aphasia, Centro de Investigaciones, Médico-Sanitarias, University of MálagaMalaga, Spain
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A neurobiological model of language is discussed that overcomes the shortcomings of the classical Wernicke-Lichtheim-Geschwind model. It is based on a subdivision of language processing into three components: Memory, Unification, and Control. The functional components as well as the neurobiological underpinnings of the model are discussed. In addition, the need for extension of the model beyond the classical core regions for language is shown. The attention network and the network for inferential processing are crucial to realize language comprehension beyond single word processing and beyond decoding propositional content. It is shown that this requires the dynamic interaction between multiple brain regions.
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- Peter Hagoort
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen, Netherlands
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A voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis of regional grey and white matter volume abnormalities within the speech production network of children who stutter. Cortex 2012; 49:2151-61. [PMID: 23140891 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2011] [Revised: 06/23/2012] [Accepted: 08/09/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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It is well documented that neuroanatomical differences exist between adults who stutter and their fluently speaking peers. Specifically, adults who stutter have been found to have more grey matter volume (GMV) in speech relevant regions including inferior frontal gyrus, insula and superior temporal gyrus (Beal et al., 2007; Song et al., 2007). Despite stuttering having its onset in childhood only one study has investigated the neuroanatomical differences between children who do and do not stutter. Chang et al. (2008) reported children who stutter had less GMV in the bilateral inferior frontal gyri and middle temporal gyrus relative to fluently speaking children. Thus it appears that children who stutter present with unique neuroanatomical abnormalities as compared to those of adults who stutter. In order to better understand the neuroanatomical correlates of stuttering earlier in its development, near the time of onset, we used voxel-based morphometry to examine volumetric differences between 11 children who stutter and 11 fluent children. Children who stutter had less GMV in the bilateral inferior frontal gyri and left putamen but more GMV in right Rolandic operculum and superior temporal gyrus relative to fluent children. Children who stutter also had less white matter volume bilaterally in the forceps minor of the corpus callosum. We discuss our findings of widespread anatomic abnormalities throughout the cortical network for speech motor control within the context of the speech motor skill limitations identified in people who stutter (Namasivayam and van Lieshout, 2008; Smits-Bandstra et al., 2006).
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Zuo N, Cheng J, Jiang T. Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging for Brainnetome: a critical review. Neurosci Bull 2012; 28:375-88. [PMID: 22833036 PMCID: PMC5560260 DOI: 10.1007/s12264-012-1245-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2012] [Accepted: 04/27/2012] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Increasing evidence shows that the human brain is a highly self-organized system that shows attributes of small-worldness, hierarchy and modularity. The "connectome" was conceived several years ago to identify the underpinning physical connectivities of brain networks. The need for an integration of multi-spatial and -temporal approaches is becoming apparent. Therefore, the "Brainnetome" (brain-net-ome) project was proposed. Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a non-invasive way to study the anatomy of brain networks. Here, we review the principles of dMRI, its methodologies, and some of its clinical applications for the Brainnetome. Future research in this field is discussed.
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- Nianming Zuo
- LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
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- LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
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- LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054 China
- The Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072 Australia
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Analysis of the subcomponents and cortical terminations of the perisylvian superior longitudinal fasciculus: a fiber dissection and DTI tractography study. Brain Struct Funct 2012; 218:105-21. [PMID: 22422148 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-012-0386-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2011] [Accepted: 01/18/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The anatomy of the perisylvian component of the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) has recently been reviewed by numerous diffusion tensor imaging tractography (DTI) studies. However, little is known about the exact cortical terminations of this tract. The aim of the present work is to isolate the different subcomponents of this tract with fiber dissection and DTI tractography, and to identify the exact cortical connections. Twelve postmortem human hemispheres (6 right and 6 left) were dissected using the cortex-sparing fiber dissection. In addition, three healthy brains were analyzed using DTI-based tractography software. The different components of the perisylvian SLF were isolated and the fibers were followed until the cortical terminations. Three segments of the perisylvian SLF were identified: (1) anterior segment, connecting the supramarginal gyrus and superior temporal gyrus with the precentral gyrus, (2) posterior segment, connecting the posterior portion of the middle temporal gyrus with the angular gyrus, and (3) long segment of the arcuate fasciculus that connects the middle and inferior temporal gyri with the precentral gyrus and posterior portion of the inferior and middle frontal gyri. In the present study, three different components of the perisylvian SLF were identified. For the first time, our dissections revealed that each component was connected to a specific cortical area within the frontal, parietal and temporal lobes. By accurately depicting not only the trajectory but also cortical connections of this bundle, it is possible to develop new insights into the putative functional role of this tract.
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Berthier ML, Lambon Ralph MA, Pujol J, Green C. Arcuate fasciculus variability and repetition: The left sometimes can be right. Cortex 2012; 48:133-43. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2010] [Revised: 06/01/2011] [Accepted: 06/14/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Powell JL, Parkes L, Kemp GJ, Sluming V, Barrick TR, García-Fiñana M. The effect of sex and handedness on white matter anisotropy: a diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging study. Neuroscience 2012; 207:227-42. [PMID: 22274289 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2011] [Revised: 01/07/2012] [Accepted: 01/11/2012] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging provides a way of assessing the asymmetry of white matter (WM) connectivity, the degree of anisotropic diffusion within a given voxel being a marker of coherently bundled myelinated fibers. Voxel-based statistical analysis was performed on fractional anisotropy (FA) images of 42 right- and 40 left-handers, to assess differences in underlying WM anisotropy and FA asymmetry across the whole brain. Right-handers show greater anisotropy than left-handers in the uncinate fasciculus (UF) within the limbic lobe, and WM underlying prefrontal cortex, medial and inferior frontal gyri. Significantly greater leftward FA asymmetry in cerebellum posterior lobe is seen in left- than right-handers, and males show significantly greater rightward (right-greater-than-left) FA asymmetry in regions of middle occipital lobe, medial temporal gyrus, and a region of the superior longitudinal fasciculus underlying the supramarginal gyrus. Leftward (left-greater-than-right) anisotropy is found in regions of the arcuate fasciculus (AF), UF, and WM underlying pars triangularis in both handedness groups, with right-handers alone showing additional leftward FA asymmetry along the length of the superior temporal gyrus. Overall results indicate that although both handedness groups show anisotropy in similar WM regions, greater anisotropy is observed in right-handers compared with left-handers. The largest differences in FA asymmetry are found between males and females, suggesting a greater effect of sex than handedness on FA asymmetry.
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- J L Powell
- Magnetic Resonance and Image Analysis Research Centre, University of Liverpool, UK.
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Martino J, De Witt Hamer PC, Vergani F, Brogna C, de Lucas EM, Vázquez-Barquero A, García-Porrero JA, Duffau H. Cortex-sparing fiber dissection: an improved method for the study of white matter anatomy in the human brain. J Anat 2011. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2011.01414.x (2011)] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Martino J, De Witt Hamer PC, Vergani F, Brogna C, de Lucas EM, Vázquez-Barquero A, García-Porrero JA, Duffau H. Cortex-sparing fiber dissection: an improved method for the study of white matter anatomy in the human brain. J Anat 2011; 219:531-41. [PMID: 21767263 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2011.01414.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Classical fiber dissection of post mortem human brains enables us to isolate a fiber tract by removing the cortex and overlying white matter. In the current work, a modification of the dissection methodology is presented that preserves the cortex and the relationships within the brain during all stages of dissection, i.e. 'cortex-sparing fiber dissection'. Thirty post mortem human hemispheres (15 right side and 15 left side) were dissected using cortex-sparing fiber dissection. Magnetic resonance imaging study of a healthy brain was analyzed using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)-based tractography software. DTI fiber tract reconstructions were compared with cortex-sparing fiber dissection results. The fibers of the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF), inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF), inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF) and uncinate fasciculus (UF) were isolated so as to enable identification of their cortical terminations. Two segments of the SLF were identified: first, an indirect and superficial component composed of a horizontal and vertical segment; and second, a direct and deep component or arcuate fasciculus. The IFOF runs within the insula, temporal stem and sagittal stratum, and connects the frontal operculum with the occipital, parietal and temporo-basal cortex. The UF crosses the limen insulae and connects the orbito-frontal gyri with the anterior temporal lobe. Finally, a portion of the ILF was isolated connecting the fusiform gyrus with the occipital gyri. These results indicate that cortex-sparing fiber dissection facilitates study of the 3D anatomy of human brain tracts, enabling the tracing of fibers to their terminations in the cortex. Consequently, it is an important tool for neurosurgical training and neuroanatomical research.
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- Juan Martino
- Department of Neurological Surgery, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Cantabria, Spain.
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Anderson EJ, Jones DK, O'Gorman RL, Leemans A, Catani M, Husain M. Cortical network for gaze control in humans revealed using multimodal MRI. Cereb Cortex 2011; 22:765-75. [PMID: 21693784 PMCID: PMC3306571 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques allow definition of cortical nodes that are presumed to be components of large-scale distributed brain networks involved in cognitive processes. However, very few investigations examine whether such functionally defined areas are in fact structurally connected. Here, we used combined fMRI and diffusion MRI-based tractography to define the cortical network involved in saccadic eye movement control in humans. The results of this multimodal imaging approach demonstrate white matter pathways connecting the frontal eye fields and supplementary eye fields, consistent with the known connectivity of these regions in macaque monkeys. Importantly, however, these connections appeared to be more prominent in the right hemisphere of humans. In addition, there was evidence of a dorsal frontoparietal pathway connecting the frontal eye field and the inferior parietal lobe, also right hemisphere dominant, consistent with specialization of the right hemisphere for directed attention in humans. These findings demonstrate the utility and potential of using multimodal imaging techniques to define large-scale distributed brain networks, including those that demonstrate known hemispheric asymmetries in humans.
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Saporta ASD, Kumar A, Govindan RM, Sundaram SK, Chugani HT. Arcuate fasciculus and speech in congenital bilateral perisylvian syndrome. Pediatr Neurol 2011; 44:270-4. [PMID: 21397168 DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2010.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2010] [Revised: 08/18/2010] [Accepted: 11/09/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Standard magnetic resonance imaging can diagnose congenital bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria, but is limited in explaining the heterogeneous clinical spectrum of the related congenital bilateral perisylvian syndrome, characterized by pseudobulbar dysfunction, developmental delay, and epilepsy. We analyzed arcuate fasciculi using diffusion tensor imaging, a major language tract in the perisylvian region interconnecting the Broca and Wernicke areas, and at high risk of becoming developmentally affected in this condition. Six patients with congenital bilateral perisylvian syndrome underwent diffusion tensor imaging and were evaluated. The arcuate fasciculus was manually isolated, using tractography. The tract was identified in three patients who had developed speech, and whose values for various diffusion parameters were similar to those in age-matched controls (patients/controls means: fractional anisotropy, 0.50/0.52; apparent diffusion coefficient, 0.0022/0.0022 mm(2)/second; P = ns for both). However, in three patients with severe impairment and no speech development, the arcuate fasciculus could not be identified by fiber-tracking. In this small series, the absence of arcuate fasciculi on diffusion tensor imaging correlated with a more severe phenotype, which cannot be appreciated via structural magnetic resonance imaging alone.
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- Anita S D Saporta
- Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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Petit L, Zago L, Vigneau M, Andersson F, Crivello F, Mazoyer B, Mellet E, Tzourio-Mazoyer N. Functional Asymmetries Revealed in Visually Guided Saccades: An fMRI Study. J Neurophysiol 2009; 102:2994-3003. [PMID: 19710382 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00280.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Because eye movements are a fundamental tool for spatial exploration, we hypothesized that the neural bases of these movements in humans should be under right cerebral dominance, as already described for spatial attention. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging in 27 right-handed participants who alternated central fixation with either large or small visually guided saccades (VGS), equally performed in both directions. Hemispheric functional asymmetry was analyzed to identify whether brain regions showing VGS activation elicited hemispheric asymmetries. Hemispheric anatomical asymmetry was also estimated to assess its influence on the VGS functional lateralization. Right asymmetrical activations of a saccadic/attentional system were observed in the lateral frontal eye fields (FEF), the anterior part of the intraparietal sulcus (aIPS), the posterior third of the superior temporal sulcus (STS), the occipitotemporal junction (MT/V5 area), the middle occipital gyrus, and medially along the calcarine fissure (V1). The present rightward functional asymmetries were not related to differences in gray matter (GM) density/sulci positions between right and left hemispheres in the precentral, intraparietal, superior temporal, and extrastriate regions. Only V1 asymmetries were explained for almost 20% of the variance by a difference in the position of the right and left calcarine fissures. Left asymmetrical activations of a saccadic motor system were observed in the medial FEF and in the motor strip eye field along the Rolando sulcus. They were not explained by GM asymmetries. We suggest that the leftward saccadic motor asymmetry is part of a general dominance of the left motor cortex in right-handers, which must include an effect of sighting dominance. Our results demonstrate that, although bilateral by nature, the brain network involved in the execution of VGSs, irrespective of their direction, presented specific right and left asymmetries that were not related to anatomical differences in sulci positions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Laurent Petit
- Centre for Imaging, Neurosciences and Applications to Pathologies, UMR6232 CNRS CEA
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- Centre for Imaging, Neurosciences and Applications to Pathologies, UMR6232 CNRS CEA
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- Centre for Imaging, Neurosciences and Applications to Pathologies, UMR6232 CNRS CEA
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- Centre for Imaging, Neurosciences and Applications to Pathologies, UMR6232 CNRS CEA
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- Centre for Imaging, Neurosciences and Applications to Pathologies, UMR6232 CNRS CEA
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Caen
- Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Centre for Imaging, Neurosciences and Applications to Pathologies, UMR6232 CNRS CEA
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Zopf R, Fruhmann Berger M, Klose U, Karnath HO. Perfusion imaging of the right perisylvian neural network in acute spatial neglect. Front Hum Neurosci 2009; 3:15. [PMID: 19680470 PMCID: PMC2726039 DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.015.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2009] [Accepted: 07/15/2009] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Recent studies have suggested a tightly connected perisylvian neural network associated with spatial neglect. Here we investigated whether structural damage in one part of the network typically is accompanied with functional damage in other, structurally intact areas of this network. By combining normalized fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery (FLAIR) imaging, diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), and perfusion-weighted imaging (PWI) we asked whether or not lesions centering on fronto-temporal regions co-occur with abnormal perfusion in structurally intact parietal cortex. With thresholds applied to delineate behaviourally relevant malperfusion of brain tissue, the analysis of normalized time-to-peak (TTP) and maximal signal reduction (MSR) perfusion maps did not reveal significant changes outside the area of structural damage. In particular, we found no abnormal perfusion in the structurally intact inferior parietal lobule (IPL) and/or the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ). The present results obtained in three consecutively admitted neglect patients with fronto-temporal lesions indicate that structural damage in one part of the right perisylvian network associated with spatial neglect does not necessarily require dysfunction by malperfusion in other, structurally intact parts of the network to provoke spatial neglect. The neural tissue in the fronto-temporal cortex appears to have an original role in processes of spatial orienting and exploration.
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- Regine Zopf
- Section of Neuropsychology, Center of Neurology, Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany.
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