title: Damage of left temporal lobe resulting in conversion of speech to Sutra, a Buddhist prayer stored in the right hemisphere.
abstract: The present study describes a case of a right-handed 74-year-old woman with a brain tumor who showed conversion of speech to Sutra, a Buddhist prayer, which was stored in the right hemisphere according to the Wada test. After surgery, relative improvement in the speech disorder was observed, and frequency of speech production of simple normal words with normal phonology increased. These observations indicate that damage to left temporal lobe resulted in conversion of speech to Sutra, and that Sutra was stored in this patient's right hemisphere.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Komagome Metropolitan Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. shinoura@cick.jp
authors.forename: Nobusada
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shinoura
authors.forename: Toshiyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Onodera
authors.forename: Kotoyo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kurokawa
authors.forename: Masanobu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsukada
authors.forename: Ryozi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tabei
authors.forename: Tomoyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Koizumi
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yagi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D054022:Cerebrum / Q000473:pathology* / Q000502:physiology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013060:Speech; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology*