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White matter in aphasia: A historical review of the Dejerines’ studies

  • Krestel, Heinz Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland - Department of Neuropediatrics, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Annoni, Jean-Marie Department of Neurology, Hôpital de Fribourg - Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Jagella, Caroline Department of Neurology, Kantonspital Baden, Switzerland
    26.07.2013
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  • Brain and Language. - 2013, vol. 127, no. 3, p. 526–532
Language
Stroke
White matter disease
19th Cent history of medicine
Dorsal stream
Ventral stream
Superior longitudinal fasciculus arcuate fasciculus
English The Objective was to describe the contributions of Joseph Jules Dejerine and his wife Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke to our understanding of cerebral association fiber tracts and language processing. The Dejerines (and not Constantin von Monakow) were the first to describe the superior longitudinal fasciculus/arcuate fasciculus (SLF/AF) as an association fiber tract uniting Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area, and a visual image center in the angular gyrus of a left hemispheric language zone. They were also the first to attribute language-related functions to the fasciculi occipito-frontalis (FOF) and the inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF) after describing aphasia patients with degeneration of the SLF/AF, ILF, uncinate fasciculus (UF), and FOF. These fasciculi belong to a functional network known as the Dejerines’ language zone, which exceeds the borders of the classically defined cortical language centers. The Dejerines provided the first descriptions of the anatomical pillars of present-day language models (such as the SLF/AF). Their anatomical descriptions of fasciculi in aphasia patients provided a foundation for our modern concept of the dorsal and ventral streams in language processing.
Faculty
Faculté des sciences et de médecine
Department
Médecine 3ème année
Language
  • English
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Biological sciences
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