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    Fronto-thalamic networks and the left ventral thalamic nuclei play a key role in aphasia after thalamic stroke

    Thalamic aphasia results from focal thalamic lesions that cause dysfunction of remote but functionally connected cortical areas due to language network perturbation. However, specific local and network-level n...

    Ida Rangus, Ana Sofia Rios, Andreas Horn, Merve Fritsch in Communications Biology (2024)

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    Thalamic Aphasia: a Review

    Thalamic aphasia is a rare language disorder resulting from lesions to the thalamus. While most patients exhibit mild symptoms with a predominance of lexical-semantic difficulties, variations in phenotype have...

    Merve Fritsch, Ida Rangus, Christian H. Nolte in Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports (2022)

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    Frequency and phenotype of thalamic aphasia

    Aphasia is a recognized presenting symptom of thalamic lesions. Little is known regarding its frequency and phenotype. We examined the frequency of thalamic aphasia following Isolated Acute unilateral ischemic...

    Ida Rangus, Merve Fritsch, Matthias Endres, Birgit Udke in Journal of Neurology (2022)

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    Frequency, clinical presentation and outcome of vigilance impairment in patients with uni- and bilateral ischemic infarction of the paramedian thalamus

    Ischemic stroke of the paramedian thalamus is a rare differential diagnosis in sudden altered vigilance states. While efforts to describe clinical symptomatology exist, data on the frequency of paramedian thal...

    Merve Fritsch, Kersten Villringer, Ramanan Ganeshan, Ida Rangus in Journal of Neurology (2021)