The exchange of words, speaking and listening in conversation, may seem unremarkable for most people, but communicating with others is a challenge for people who have aphasia, an impairment of ...

Neurosurgeons from the University of California, San Francisco are reporting significant results of a new brain mapping technique that allows for the safe removal of tumors near language pathways in ...

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) have used MRI data to create what they call a "semantic atlas," using vivid colors in multiple dimensions to show how the brain ...

January 3, 2008 — A new study suggests that a smaller craniotomy in conjunction with negative language mapping can be used to maximize tumor removal and minimize deficits when gliomas within or near ...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. study finds intraoperative language mapping for gliomas -- a type of brain tumor -- should be the rule, rather than the exception. Intraoperative language ...

Mapping the Four Factors in the Brain Next, the researchers determined how individual performance differences for each of these factors were associated with the locations in the brain damaged by ...

'By studying language in people with aphasia, we can try to accomplish two goals at once: we can improve our clinical understanding of aphasia and get new insights into how language is organized in ...