Anna Bacon Moore

TL;DR: Six challenges for imaging language functions in aphasia with fMRI are covered, with an emphasis on language production, including selection of a baseline task, structure of language production trials, mitigation of motion-related artifacts, and the use of stimulus onset versus response onset in fMRI analyses.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the right basal ganglia activity serves to suppress right frontal activity, preventing right frontal structures from interfering with language production.

TL;DR: Two patients with residual nonfluent aphasia after ischemic stroke received an intention treatment that was designed to shift intention and language production mechanisms from the frontal lobe of the damaged left hemisphere to the right frontal lobe, and the first patient showed improvement on the intention treatment but not on a similar attention treatment.

TL;DR: The authors’ findings suggest that the effectiveness of explicit-memory training in patients with MCI is associated with training-specific increases in activation and connectivity in a distributed neural system that includes areas involved in explicit memory.

TL;DR: Rec rehabilitation increased the speed of word-finding processes and TTP analysis was sensitive to this functional change and can be used to represent improvement in behavior, and it is important to monitor the behavioral performance that might correlate with the temporal pattern of the hemodynamic response.