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ArticleJournal of neurology2007

Primary face motor area as the motor representation of articulation.

Yasuo Terao, Yoshikazu Ugawa, Tomotaka Yamamoto, Yasuhisa Sakurai, Tomohiko Masumoto, Osamu Abe, Yoshitaka Masutani, Shigeki Aoki, Shoji Tsuji

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Article in Journal of neurology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Corticomuscular coherence is tuned to the spontaneous rhythmicity of speech at 2-3 Hz.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2012
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  3. A Neurosurgical Functional Dissection of the Middle Precentral Gyrus during Speech Production.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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  5. The functional neuroanatomy of language.Physics of life reviews · 2009
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yasuo TeraoDepartment of Neurology, Division of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku1, 13-8655 Tokyo, Japan. yterao-tky@umin.ac.jp
Yoshikazu Ugawa
Tomotaka Yamamoto
Yasuhisa Sakurai
Tomohiko Masumoto
Osamu Abe
Yoshitaka Masutani
Shigeki Aoki
Shoji Tsuji
The University of Tokyo · JPMitsui Memorial Hospital · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

No clinical data have yet been presented to show that a lesion localized to the primary motor area (M1) can cause severe transient impairment of articulation, although a motor representation for articulation has been suggested to exist within M1. Here we describe three cases of patients who developed severe dysarthria, temporarily mimicking speech arrest or aphemia, due to a localized brain lesion near the left face representation of the human primary motor cortex (face-M1). Speech was slow, effortful, lacking normal prosody, and more affected than expected from the degree of facial or tongue palsy. There was a mild deficit in tongue movements in the sagittal plane that impaired palatolingual contact and rapid tongue movements. The speech disturbance was limited to verbal output, without aphasia or orofacial apraxia. Overlay of magnetic resonance images revealed a localized cortical region near face-M1, which displayed high intensity on diffusion weighted images, while the main portion of the corticobulbar fibers arising from the lower third of the motor cortex was preserved. The cases suggest the existence of a localized brain region specialized for articulation near face-M1. Cortico-cortical fibers connecting face-M1 with the lower premotor areas including Broca's area may also be important for articulatory control.

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FaceAdultAgedAged, 80 and overArticulation DisordersBrain InjuriesBrain MappingDiffusion Magnetic Resonance ImagingFemaleHumansMaleMotor Cortex

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PMID17380243
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