Written By: Shraddha Rupavate | Published : October 29, 2014 6:23 PM IST
A study that appeared in the brain function journal NeuroImage revealed a new approach used by researchers to identify brain areas responsible for speech processing and production.
Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna revealed how 7-Tesla ultra high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows better diagnosis of these language centres in the brain compared to clinical MRI scanners.
As reported by the Austria Press Agency, Roland Beisteiner from the Department of Neurology as said Tuesday that the new MRI approach was extremely sensitive and was able to identify even very weak signals in the brain that would otherwise be missed by clinical MRI. This better diagnosis could be very crucial for future brain operations in that the language centres could be better-protected during invasive surgeries that could otherwise lead to loss of speech faculty, Xinhua reported.
With inputs from IANS
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