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Interhemispheric Differences Observed during the Performance of Cognitive Tasks Using Doppler Ultrasound

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The article presents empirical data on the possible use of transcranial Doppler sonography as a method for the identification of functional specialization of hemispheres. We investigated intrahemispheric differences in the increase in blood flow velocity indicators during the performance of cognitive tasks with verbal and nonverbal stimuli in 20 healthy right-handed participants and 20 right-handed patients with local unilateral vascular brain lesions. We observed interhemispheric and intrahemispheric differences in blood flow velocity indicators between arteries during the performance of cognitive tasks with different variants of verbal stimuli in all participants. It has been found that one of the hemispheres plays a dominant role in verbal and nonverbal stimulus processing.

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  1. Moscow State University, Moscow, 119899, Russia

    Yu. V. Mikadze, E. S. Lysenko & M. D. Bogdanova

  2. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia

    Yu. V. Mikadze & E. S. Lysenko

  3. Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute, Moscow, Russia

    S. M. Abuzaid & A. R. Shakhnovich

  4. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia

    M. D. Bogdanova

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Original Russian Text © Yu.V. Mikadze, E.S. Lysenko, M.D. Bogdanova, S.M. Abuzaid, A.R. Shakhnovich, 2018, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2018, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 60–65.

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Mikadze, Y.V., Lysenko, E.S., Bogdanova, M.D. et al. Interhemispheric Differences Observed during the Performance of Cognitive Tasks Using Doppler Ultrasound. Hum Physiol 44, 170–174 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119718020135

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