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Saturday, November 21, 2009

International medical graduate-patient communication: a qualitative analysis of perceived barriers.

30 Oct 2009 PURPOSE: International medical graduates (IMGs) represent a substantial portion of all medical residents in the United States. Yet, IMGs may be disadvantaged in their communications with U.S. patients for a variety of reasons. The authors conducted ... Read more...

Sequential processing of lexical, grammatical, and phonological information within Broca's area.

14 Oct 2009 Words, grammar, and phonology are linguistically distinct, yet their neural substrates are difficult to distinguish in macroscopic brain regions. We investigated whether they can be separated in time and space at the circuit level using intracranial ... Read more...

Regional changes in word-production laterality after a naming treatment designed to produce a rightward shift in frontal activity.

4 Oct 2009 Five nonfluent aphasia patients participated in a picture-naming treatment that used an intention manipulation (opening a box and pressing a button on a device in the box with the left hand) to initiate naming trials and was designed to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Language'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• International medical graduate-patient communication: a qualitative analysis of perceived barriers. 30 Oct 2009
• [Information from foreign patients. Decision of the German Supreme Court from May 8, 2008] 19 Oct 2009
• Sequential processing of lexical, grammatical, and phonological information within Broca's area. 14 Oct 2009
• Neuroscience. The speaking brain. 14 Oct 2009
• Regional changes in word-production laterality after a naming treatment designed to produce a rightward shift in frontal activity. 4 Oct 2009
• Modeling children's early grammatical knowledge. 3 Oct 2009
• Dangers in using translated medical questionnaires: the importance of conceptual equivalence across languages and cultures in patient-reported outcome measures. 29 Sep 2009
• mtDNA variability in two Bantu-speaking populations (Shona and Hutu) from Eastern Africa: implications for peopling and migration patterns in sub-Saharan Africa. 29 Sep 2009
• [Scientific articles in the Icelandic Medical Journal 2004-2008: an overview] 29 Sep 2009
• [Selective inability to speak, a expression of division between two cultures] 29 Sep 2009
• [A clinic for half-castes for children of immigrants] 29 Sep 2009
• Limited English proficiency is a barrier to receipt of advice about physical activity and diet among Hispanics with chronic diseases in the United States. 29 Sep 2009
• Evidence of a large-scale network underlying language switching: a brain stimulation study. 29 Sep 2009
• Relationships between essential cortical language sites and subcortical pathways. 29 Sep 2009
• Right visual field advantage in parafoveal processing: evidence from eye-fixation-related potentials. 23 Sep 2009
• Differences in task demands influence the hemispheric lateralization and neural correlates of metaphor. 22 Sep 2009
• Reconstructing Indian population history. 22 Sep 2009
• Human genetics: Tracing India's invisible threads. 22 Sep 2009
• Event-related potential evidence of processing lexical pitch-accent in auditory Japanese sentences. 21 Sep 2009
• From communication signals to human language and thought: evolution or revolution? 21 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Language'

Definition: A verbal or nonverbal means of communicating ideas or feelings.

Descriptor UI: D007802

Alternative terms: Language; Languages;

Related Mesh Headings: Sign Language; Multilingualism;

Tree Number: F01.145.209.399; L01.143.506;

Technical Notes: what is spoken or written; do not confuse with LINGUISTICS (see note there) or SPEECH (language as it comes out of the mouth); no qualif