Navigational MRI charts language map of brain

February 14, 2008 Navigational MRI charts language map of brain Larry Schuster -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With help from navigational MRI, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have assembled the largest composite map of the brain's language sites ever to appear in the medical literature. They found far greater variability in the location of these sites than other models of language organization suggest. The study of language mapping was based on navigational MR images from 250 consecutive conscious patients during glioma surgery.

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