{"pk":26137,"title":"Making it Right: Can the Right-Hemisphere Compensate for Language Function in\nPatients with Left-Frontal Brain Tumors?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Both the degree to which the left-hemisphere is specialized\nfor language and the relative ability of the right-hemisphere\nto subserve language function are underspecified. The\npresent study sought to identify whether the right-frontal\nfMRI activation seen in a number of case studies in patients\nwith left-sided brain lesions exists as a group-level trend in\npatients with left-frontal tumors. It also sought to examine\nthe possible compensatory nature of this activation. Thus, a\nretrospective analysis of 197 brain tumor patients who had\nundergone pre-surgical fMRI language mapping was\nconducted. Patients with left-frontal tumors were found to\nbe more likely to show right- or co-dominant fMRI\nactivation during language mapping tasks compared to\npatients who had tumors elsewhere in the brain. Further,\npatients with left-frontal tumors who were identified as\nright- or co-dominant for language were found to possess\nmore intact language function as measured by the Boston\nNaming Test.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"language; neuroplasticity"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3c39353s","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ethan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jost","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cornell University","department":""},{"first_name":"Nicole","middle_name":"P.","last_name":"Brennan","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cornell University","department":""},{"first_name":"Kyung","middle_name":"K.","last_name":"Peck","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cornell University","department":""},{"first_name":"Andrei","middle_name":"I.","last_name":"Holodny","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cornell University","department":""},{"first_name":"Morten","middle_name":"H.","last_name":"Christiansen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cornell University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26137/galley/15773/download/"}]}