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- Title
Presurgical Language fMRI in Patients with Drug-resistant Epilepsy: Effects of Task Performance.
- Authors
Weber, Bernd; Wellmer, Jörg; Schür, Simone; Dinkelacker, Vera; Ruhlmann, Jürgen; Mormann, Florian; Axmacher, Nikolai; Elger, Christian E.; Fernández, Guillén
- Abstract
Purpose: To determine whether language functional magnetic resonance imaging ( fMRI) before epilepsy surgery can be similarly interpreted in patients with greatly different performance levels. Methods: An fMRI paradigm using a semantic decision task with performance control and a perceptual control task was applied to 226 consecutive patients with drug-resistant localization-related epilepsy during their presurgical evaluations. The volume of activation and lateralization in an inferior frontal and a temporoparietal area was assessed in correlation with individual performance levels. Results: We observed differential effects of task performance on the volume of activation in the inferior frontal and the temporoparietal region of interest, but performance measures did not correlate with the lateralization of activation. Conclusions: fMRI, as applied here, in patients with a wide range of cognitive abilities, can be interpreted regarding language lateralization in a similar way.
- Subjects
MAGNETIC resonance imaging; DRUG resistance; INSULIN resistance; EPILEPSY; DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities; SPASMS; CEREBRAL dominance
- Publication
Epilepsia (Series 4), 2006, Vol 47, Issue 5, p880
- ISSN
0013-9580
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00515.x