
Stutterers and Cerebral Blood Flow-Reply
Kenneth D. Pool, MD;
Terese Finitzo, PhD
Neuroscience Center Methodist Medical Center PO Box 655999 Dallas, TX 75265
Michael D. Devous, Sr, PhD;
Frances J. Freeman, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd Dallas, TX 75235-9035
Ben C. Watson, PhD
University of Texas at Dallas Callier Center 1966 Inwood Rd Dallas, TX 75235
Arch Neurol. 1992;49(4):347-348.
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—We appreciate the interest in our article1 shown by Viswanath and his colleagues and welcome the opportunity to respond to their comments. Their first concern is based on comparison of findings for normal control subjects in our study1 with findings reported by Devous et al.2 Viswanath et al suggest that interhemispheric flow differences for the normal subjects in these studies are opposite for superior and middle temporal regions of interest (ROIs). We are confused by this statement. Within-group interhemispheric flow differences for normal control subjects were not reported by Pool et al.1 However, examination of flow values summarized in Table 1 of that article shows that the pattern of interhemispheric difference for normal control subjects is, in fact, similar to the pattern of differences reported by Devous et al2 in their Table 4.
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