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Mapping the Functional Anatomy of Sentence Comprehension and Application to Presurgical Evaluation of Patients with Brain Tumor

Manzar Ashtari^a, Kenneth Perrine^a,b,c, Rania Elbaz^a, Uzma Syed^a, Emily Thaden^d, Carolyn McIlree^d, Rima Dolgoff-Kaspar^b, Tana Clarke^a, Alan Diamond^a and Alan Ettinger^a

^a Department of Radiology and Neurology, Long Island Jewish Division of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, New Hyde Park, New York, NY
^b Department of Psychology, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY
^c Department of Neurological Surgery, Cornell-Weill College of Medicine, New York, NY
^d Department of Psychiatry, Zucker Hillside Hospital, New York, NY

View larger version (95K): [in a new window]   FIG 1. Sample contrasts from healthy subjects. A, Sentence completion – rest. B, Letter string – rest. C, Sentence completion – letter string. D, Mesial activation areas for sentence completion – letter string.

View larger version (41K): [in a new window]   FIG 2. Patient contrasts. A, Case 1. Sentence completion – letter string. B, Case 2. Sentence completion – letter string.

View larger version (69K): [in a new window]   FIG 3. Activation with sentence completion – letter string. Image for case 1 (A) shows no area of activation around the cavernous angioma, whereas that for case 2 (B) shows clear involvement.