The arcuate fasciculus is a major white matter tract involved in language processing that has also been repeatedly implicated in intelligence and reasoning tasks. Language in the human brain is lateralized in terms of both function and structure, and while the arcuate fasciculus reflects this asymmetry, its pattern of lateralization is poorly understood in children and adolescents. We used diff...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Language dominance research using functional neuroimaging has made important contributions to clinical applications. Nevertheless, although recent neuroimaging studies demonstrated right-lateralized activation by human voice perception, the influence of voice perception in terms of language dominance has not been adequately studied. We aimed to accurately clarify language...

introduction: febrile seizure is the most common type of seizure that occurs in 3– 4% of children below the age of 5 years. the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of recurrence of febrile and afebrile seizures after the first febrile seizure. methods: in a descriptive prospective study, 139 children (6months to 6years old) admitted between march 2004and august 2005 at yazd sha...

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) often presents with asymmetric atrophy. We assessed whether premorbid occupations in FTLD patients were associated with these hemispheric asymmetries. In a multi-center chart review of 588 patients, occupation information was related to location of tissue loss or dysfunction. Patients with atrophy lateralized to the right had professions more dependent o...

CMYK 523 Figure 2: Plain and contrast CT scan of the brain done on 09/11/2003 shows a left fronto-parietal hypodense, extracerebral fluid collection with severe brain edema causing midline shift and obliteration of the basal cistern Sir, Periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLEDs) are a well-defined electroencephalographic entity known for the past four decades. PLEDs have been associa...

BACKGROUND Different implant designs are utilized in reverse shoulder arthroplasty. The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate the results of reverse shoulder arthroplasty using a traditional (Grammont) prosthesis and a lateralized prosthesis for the treatment of cuff tear arthropathy and massive irreparable rotator cuff tears. METHODS A systematic review of the literature was perf...

OBJECTIVES: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) tractography has shown tract-specific pathology in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). This technique normally yields a single value per diffusion parameter per tract, potentially reducing the sensitivity for the detection of focal changes. Our goal was to spatially characterize diffusion abnormalities of fasciculi carrying temporal lobe connections. METHODS...

CORRESPONDENCE Dear Sir, I was pleased to see Lebrun's ~ review of the important topic of ictal verbal behaviour. However , I believe he did not emphasize enough how careful analysis of ictal and postictal language can assist in seizure focus localization. Koerner et al 2, and later Gabr et al 3, showed that careful review of ictal and postictal language during video/EEG recorded seizures provi...

A theorem of W. Kohnen states that the generalized Riemann hypothesis (GRH) holds on an average for holomorphic cusp forms on the upper half plane for the full modular group SL2(Z). In this article we prove a couple of generalizations of this theorem of Kohnen that the GRH holds on an average for holomorphic cusp forms on the upper half plane for arbitrary level, weight and primitive nebentypus...