Assessment of hemispheric dominance for language in crossed aphasia by two atraumatic methods

Cortex. 1986 Jun;22(2):305-11. doi: 10.1016/s0010-9452(86)80055-7.

Abstract

In a right handed patient with crossed aphasia, two atraumatic techniques (regional cerebral blood flow measurements during the performance of a linguistic task and dichotic listening test) were used to assess language lateralization. The prominence of rCBF activation patterns in the right hemisphere and the presence of a clear-cut right ear extinction on the dichotic listening test provide evidence that, is this case, the right hemisphere was dominant for language.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aphasia / physiopathology*
  • Aphasia, Broca / pathology
  • Aphasia, Broca / physiopathology*
  • Cerebral Cortex / blood supply
  • Cerebral Cortex / pathology
  • Dichotic Listening Tests
  • Dominance, Cerebral / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Language*
  • Male
  • Regional Blood Flow
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed