Neurological insults, such as congenital blindness, deafness, amputation, and stroke, often
result in surprising and impressive behavioural changes. Cortical reorganisation, which …

Rodent stroke models provide the experimental backbone for the in vivo determination of the
mechanisms of cell death and neural repair, and for the initial testing of neuroprotective …

Background Aphasia is an important stroke sequel that impacts negatively on the HQoL of
stroke patients. Although a number of stroke patients with aphasia will have good functional …

The loss and recovery of language functions are still incompletely understood. This
longitudinal functional MRI study investigated the neural mechanisms underlying language …

Stroke-induced aphasia is associated with adverse effects on quality of life and the ability to
return to work. For patients and clinicians the possibility of relying on valid predictors of …

Stroke is associated with a limited degree of functional recovery. Imaging studies in humans
have shown that reorganization in periinfarct and connected cortical areas most closely …

One of the most frequent symptoms of unilateral stroke is aphasia, the impairment or loss of
language functions. Over the past few years, behavioral and neuroimaging studies have …

The concept of plasticity describes the mechanisms that rearrange cerebral organization
following a brain injury. During the last century, plasticity has been mainly investigated in …

In functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), hemispheric dominance is generally
indicated by a measure called the laterality index (LI). The assessment of a meaningful LI …

Functional imaging studies with nonfluent aphasia patients have observed “over-activation”
in right (R) language homologues. This may represent a maladaptive strategy; suppression …