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| ArticleTitle | The roles of insula for language |
| Language | J |
| AuthorList | Mika Otsuki |
| Affiliation | Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University |
| Publication | Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 30 (1), 30-40, 2014 |
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| Abstract | This study adduced the evidence of the roles of insula for language in terms of histology, anatomy and the symptomatology of the patients with the insular lesion. The results are the followings. Manifestation of anarthria (apraxia of speech), phonemic paraphasia, word comprehension impairment are not implicated in the insular lesion. There are some regions implicated elementary language function around the insular, therefore it could be easily induced pertaining to the elementary language impairment due to the lesions in the vicinity of insula. The specific symptom following insular lesion should be the peculiar formal paraphasia. It doesn't accompanied with self correction, keep recurrence, is only found in the patients with the left insular lesion and found only during the process of word retrieval. These characteristics show the left insula have an important role to connect the basic operating function of language and the language function perse. |
| Keywords | insula, formal paraphasia, language impairment |
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