Grey and white matter substrates of action naming.

Despite a persistent interest in verb processing, data on the neural underpinnings of verb retrieval are fragmentary. The present study is the first to analyze the contributions of both grey and white matter damage affecting verb retrieval through action naming in stroke. We used voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) with an action naming task in 40 left-hemisphere stroke patients.

[Prognostic significance of clinical-anthropometric, biochemical, metabolic, vascular-inflammatory and molecular-genetic markers in the development of the first ischemic stroke].

Aim: To study the relationship between clinical-anthropometric, biochemical, metabolic, vascular-inflammatory, molecular-genetic parameters and the development of the first ischemic stroke, and to develop a prognostic model for determining the probability of its occurrence.

Material And Methods: The study included 196 first ischemic stroke patients and 119 healthy people matched for age, place of residence and nationality to the group of patients. The main anthropometric, clinical, biochemical, metabolic parameters and markers of vascular inflammation and endothelial dysfunction were assessed.

Neural mechanisms of two different verbal working memory tasks: A VLSM study.

Currently, a distributed bilateral network of frontal-parietal areas is regarded as the neural substrate of working memory (WM), with the verbal WM network being more left-lateralized. This conclusion is based primarily on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data that provides correlational evidence for brain regions involved in a task. However, fMRI cannot differentiate the areas that are fundamentally required for performing a task.

[A role of genetic factors and related disorder of the folate cycle in ischemic stroke].

Aim: To study a role of MTHFR mutations and their associations with the disturbances of basic parameters of the folate cycle in the development of ischemic stroke (IS).

Material And Methods: Fifty-one post-stroke patients, 26 women and 25 men, aged from 29 to 87 years, were included in the study. The control group consisted of 47 healthy people, 23 women and 24 men, aged from 30 to 83 years.

Diffusion-tensor imaging of major white matter tracts and their role in language processing in aphasia.

A growing literature is pointing towards the importance of white matter tracts in understanding the neural mechanisms of language processing, and determining the nature of language deficits and recovery patterns in aphasia. Measurements extracted from diffusion-weighted (DW) images provide comprehensive in vivo measures of local microstructural properties of fiber pathways. In the current study, we compared microstructural properties of major white matter tracts implicated in language processing in each hemisphere (these included arcuate fasciculus (AF), superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF), inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF), inferior frontal-occipital fasciculus (IFOF), uncinate fasciculus (UF), and corpus callosum (CC), and corticospinal tract (CST) for control purposes) between individuals with aphasia and healthy controls and investigated the relationship between these neural indices and language deficits.