Reorganization of Functional Connectivity of the Language Network in Patients with Brain Gliomas

@article{Briganti2012ReorganizationOF,
  title={Reorganization of Functional Connectivity of the Language Network in Patients with Brain Gliomas},
  author={Chiara Briganti and Carlo Sestieri and Peter A Mattei and Romina Esposito and Renato Juan Galzio and Armando Tartaro and Gian Luca Romani and Massimo Caulo},
  journal={American Journal of Neuroradiology},
  year={2012},
  volume={33},
  pages={1983 - 1990}
}
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: fcMRI measures spontaneous and synchronous fluctuations of BOLD signal between spatially remote brain regions. The present study investigated potential LN fcMRI modifications induced by left hemisphere brain gliomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively evaluated fcMRI in 39 right-handed patients with a left hemisphere brain glioma and 13 healthy controls. Patients and controls performed a verb-generation task to identify individual BOLD activity in the left IFG… 
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