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Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for task‐specific activation of developmentally abnormal visual association cortex
Author(s) -
Smith Charles D.,
Trevathan Edwin R.,
Zhang Ming,
Andersen Anders H.,
Avison Malcolm J.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
annals of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.764
H-Index - 296
eISSN - 1531-8249
pISSN - 0364-5134
DOI - 10.1002/1531-8249(199904)45:4<515::aid-ana14>3.0.co;2-#
Subject(s) - functional magnetic resonance imaging , magnetic resonance imaging , neuroscience , association (psychology) , visual cortex , cortex (anatomy) , lissencephaly , psychology , functional imaging , epilepsy , task (project management) , medicine , biology , radiology , biochemistry , management , gene , economics , psychotherapist
Functional magnetic resonance imaging was performed on a 36‐year‐old woman with muscular dystrophy, intractable epilepsy, and bilateral temporo‐occipital lissencephaly. We observed islands of task‐specific activation in lissencephalic cortex homologous to visual association regions activated in normal subjects on the same visual confrontation naming task. This result suggests lissencephalic cortex may develop specific functional connections with other brain regions. Ann Neurol 1999;45:515–518