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Cerebral Glucose Metabolism as a Predictor of Recovery from Aphasia in Ischemic Stroke Arch Neurol 50:958-964, Heiss,W.D.,et al, 1993 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract As was expected,early and late Token Tests exhibit a high correlation(. 85).The stepwise regression analysis shows that only the left cerebral hemisphere glucose value of the resting PET had significant effect on the residual variance of the Token Test regression.Regional,metabolic rates during speech activation had the largest contribution to a significant recovery from aphasia.The infarct area and its corresponding mirror region,the left Broca's area,and the entire left cerebral hemisphere accounted for 80%of the residual variance.These results emphasize not only the application of PET activation studies in the prediction of a tissue's potential reserve capacity but also the importance of left hemisphere integrity in the recovery of functional language.

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