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Recovery of Language Disorders

Homologous Contralateral or Connected Ipsilateral Compensation?

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Brain Injury and Recovery

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The study of recovery from language deficit is more than just a practical, prognostic exercise for the clinician or a base line for therapy. It also provides an important theoretical framework for cerebral reorganization. Human brain damage caused by stroke or trauma produces deficits that recover in two stages. The first stage is related to recovery from the acute effect of membrane failure, ionic imbalance, hemorrhage, cellular reaction, and possibly to the reestablishment of the circulation in the ischemic penumbra (Astrup et al., 1981). Our interest has focused on second-stage recovery that takes place months, even years, after injury, and its mechanisms remain largely a mystery. A significant amount of physiological and functional recovery is probably related to intact structures compensating for the functional loss. Axonal regrowth and collateral sprouting are important mechanisms in the peripheral and, in certain instances, in the central nervous system. However, in large lesions in man causing focal cognitive or language loss, compensation is likely affected by (1) ipsilateral physiologically and anatomically connected structures, (2) contralateral homologous cortical areas, or (3) subcortical systems hierarchically and physiologically related to the damaged structures or function in question.

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  1. Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Research Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 4V2, Canada

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  1. Psychology Department and Neural Sciences Program, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130, USA

    Stanley Finger

  2. The Brain Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-7801, USA

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  3. Programs in Occupational Therapy and Neural Sciences, Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Preventive Medicine, and Psychology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 63110, USA

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Kertesz, A. (1988). Recovery of Language Disorders. In: Finger, S., Levere, T.E., Almli, C.R., Stein, D.G. (eds) Brain Injury and Recovery. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0941-3_19

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