Abstract
Secondary language areas, including the pre-supplementary motor area (pre-SMA), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and the visual word form area (VWFA) play important roles in speech, but have been under-evaluated in the realm of resting-state (rs)-fMRI. The purpose of this study is to determine the incidence that secondary language areas and contralateral language areas can be localized using seed-based correlation (SBC) rs-fMRI. We retrospectively reviewed 40 rs-fMRIs for functional connectivity (FC) to secondary language areas in cases where FC to Broca's or Wernicke's area near tumor in the left hemisphere were successfully generated using SBC analysis. Logistical regression was used for statistical analysis. SBC rs-fMRI with a seed in the left Broca's or Wernicke's area ipsilateral to the tumor was performed in the 40 patients. 72.5% of cases showed FC to the left DLPFC, 67.5% to left pre-SMA, and 52.5% of cases had FC to right Broca's area. In addition to other correlations, we found older patients have a lower incidence of FC to the right Wernicke's area when seeded from both left Broca's and left Wernicke's area (p-value = .016, odds ratio = 0.94). SBC rs-fMRI can detect left hemispheric secondary language areas as well as right hemispheric primary and secondary language areas. The left DLPFC showed the highest incidence of FC, followed by the left pre-SMA when seeded from both left Broca's and Wernicke's area. Logistics regression also showed in some instances, differences in the incidence of FC to language areas was dependent on age, seed location, and gender.
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