The role of left and right hemisphere brain regions in language recovery after stroke-induced
aphasia remains controversial. Here, we summarize how neuroimaging studies increase the …

The use of functional neuroimaging techniques has advanced what is known about the
neural mechanisms used to support language processing in aphasia resulting from brain …

Background: Functional and structural neuroimaging techniques can increase our
knowledge about the neural processes underlying recovery from post-stroke language …

This review focuses on three main topics related to the nature of poststroke language
recovery and reorganization. The first topic pertains to the nature of anatomical and …

Saur D, Hartwigsen G. Neurobiology of language recovery after stroke: lessons from
neuroimaging studies. Language is organized in large-scale, predominantly left-lateralized …

Aphasia, a condition defined as the partial or complete loss of language function after brain
damage, is one of the most devastating cognitive deficits produced by stroke lesions. Over …

Recovery from aphasia is thought to depend on neural plasticity, that is, the functional
reorganization of surviving brain regions such that they take on new or expanded roles in …

Researchers have sought to understand how language is processed in the brain, how brain
damage affects language abilities, and what can be expected during the recovery period …

The treatment of aphasias—acquired language disorders—caused by stroke and other
neurological conditions has benefitted from insights from neuroscience and …

Purpose Despite a tremendous amount of research in this topic, the precise neural
mechanisms underlying language recovery remain unclear. Much of the evidence suggests …