Haupt and Wolf D . Heiss

Is transcranial magnetic stimulation an effective therapy for aphasia?

The right inferior frontal gyrus and poststroke aphasia: a follow-up investigation.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Recently, a combined repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and activation positron emission tomography (PET) study showed essential language function of the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) in some right-handed acute poststroke aphasics. We reexamined these patients in the chronic phase to test whether the right IFG remained essential for language performa...

Imaging for prediction of functional outcome and assessment of recovery in ischemic stroke.

Advances in imaging 2009.

Imaging remains a mainstay of stroke diagnosis and treatment. 2009 brought much that was new: increased scrutiny of the safety of imaging; evidence of improved technical capabilities of imaging; new findings based on imaging; and as a result of the above, evidence that the field has definite needs. We will briefly cover each of these in turn.

Role of the contralateral inferior frontal gyrus in recovery of language function in poststroke aphasia: a combined repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and positron emission tomography study.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Functional neuroimaging studies have demonstrated right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) activation in poststroke aphasia. It remains unclear whether this activation is essential for language performance. We tested this hypothesis in a positron emission tomography (PET) activation study during a semantic task with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on right-h...