Right cerebral motor areas that support accurate speech production following damage to cerebellar speech areas.

ABSTRACT: Specific regions of the cerebellum are activated when neurologically intact adults speak, and cerebellar damage can impair speech production early after stroke, but how the brain supports accurate speech production years after cerebellar damage remains unknown. We investigated this in patients with cerebellar lesions affecting regions that are normally recruited during speech production. Functional MRI activation in these patients, measured during various single word production tasks, was compared to that of neurologically intact controls, and patient controls with lesions that spared the cerebellar speech production regions. Our analyses revealed that, during a range of speech production tasks, patients with damage to cerebellar speech production regions had greater activation in the righ

SUBMITTER: Geva S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8517928 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature