Effects of Intralaminar Thalamic Stimulation on Language Functions

Autor/inn/en	Bhatnagar, Subhash C.; Mandybur, George T.
Titel	Effects of Intralaminar Thalamic Stimulation on Language Functions
Quelle	In: Brain and Language, 92 (2005) 1, S.1-11 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0093-934X
DOI	10.1016/j.bandl.2004.05.002
Schlagwörter	Stimulation; Neurological Impairments; Chronic Illness; Pain; Neurolinguistics; Language Processing; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Lateral Dominance; Reaction Time; Error Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Chronic disease; Chronische Krankheit; Schmerz; Neurolinguistisches Programmieren; Sprachverarbeitung; Hemisphärendominanz; Reaktionsvermögen; Fehlertyp
Abstract	Fifteen neurosurgical subjects, who were undergoing thalamic chronic electrode implants as a treatment for dyskinesia and chronic pain, were evaluated on a series of neurolinguistic functions to determine if the stimulation of the centromedianum nucleus of the thalamus affected language and cognitive processing. Analysis of the data revealed that the stimulation of the left centromedianum nucleus had resulted in a notable facilitatory influence on the processing of language functions; this facilitatory effect was measured in terms of the number of errors produced and the patients' response latency time. The facilitatory effect was also noted to have extended to other language functions. The nature of the facilitation from the stimulation of the left centromedianum nucleus, an extension of the brainstem reticular formation, on language functions is discussed. (Author).
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