As in visual processing, we speculated that, in music processing, different brain regions
would activate according to the mode of music listening. Using motets by a famous composer, …

To investigate the neural substrate of typewriting Japanese words and to detect the difference
between the neural substrate of typewriting and handwriting, we conducted a functional …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The mechanism underlying the perception of music has
been the subject of study for many years. We investigated the role of the anterior portion of the …

Corticobasal syndrome (CBS) is characterized by symptoms related to the asymmetric
involvement of the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia. However, early detection of asymmetric …

Ambient echolalia is a rare condition with few reported cases. We report the case of a 20-year-old
man with a germinoma around the bilateral ventriculus lateralis who exhibited ambient …

PosTRoN emission tomography, involving the H," O injection technique, was used to study
changes in regional cerebral blood flow during Japanese kanji word reading. Three-times …

It remains an unsettled question which brain regions participate in music perception. During
singing a familiar song, the retrieval from long-term memory is necessary, but the …

A 52-year-old, right-handed female presented with visuospatial dysfunction including left
hemineglect, incomplete Balint's syndrome, and environmental agnosia, together with left-sided …

To investigate the occurrence of a writing defect, omission of kana letters (OKL), in
intellectually normal Japanese patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and define the …

We report the case of a 69-year-old woman with cerebral infarction in the left anterior cingulate
cortex and corpus callosum. She showed hyperlexia, which was a distinctive reading …