Brain tumours such as gliomas infiltrate surrounding brain tissue, including areas involved in language function. Although survival is improved with extensive tumour resection, there can be permanent ...

In a study designed to differentiate why some stroke patients recover from aphasia and others do not, investigators have found that a compensatory reorganization of language function to right ...

Language sites in the cortex of the brain vary among patients. Language mapping while the patient is awake is an intraoperative technique designed to minimize language deficits associated with ...

These are individual scans of two healthy controls and two individuals with a left-hemisphere (LH) perinatal stroke. The orange/yellow activation shows the normal language areas of the left hemisphere ...

Damage to the brain’s left side often undermines language abilities. Occasionally, so does right-brain damage. Still, a lucky few individuals can suffer injury to either side and retain their verbal ...