Late Plasticity for Language in a Child's Non-dominant Hemisphere: A pre- and post-Surgery fMRI Study

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Late 	Plasticity for Language in a Child's Non-dominant Hemisphere: A pre- and
	post-Surgery fMRI Study, Brain
 









Excerpts:&nbsp;The ability of the right
hemisphere to sustain the acquisition or the recovery of language after
extensive damage to the left hemisphere has been essentially related to the
age at the time of injury. Better language abilities are acquired when the
insult occurs in early childhood (perinatal insults) compared with later
occurrence. However, while previous studies have described the
neuropsychological pattern of language development in typical cases, the
neural bases of such plasticity remain unexplored. (...) This first serial fMRI
study illustrates the great plasticity of the child's brain and the ability of
the right hemisphere to take over some expressive language functions, even at
a relatively late age.

 
 
  
  
Late Plasticity for Language in a Child's Non-dominant
	Hemisphere: A pre- and post-Surgery fMRI Study, Lucie Hertz-Pannier, Catherine
Chiron, Isabelle Jambaque,
  Virginie Renaux-Kieffer, Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele, Olivier
	Delalande, Martine Fohlen, Francis Brunelle, and Denis Le Bihan,
	Brain, 2002 February 1; 125(2): p. 361-372
 

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