Language and thinking after childhood stroke

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What this research studies

Researchers at Georgetown University will follow adolescents and young adults who had strokes in childhood to understand how language develops when the brain reorganizes after injury. They will recruit 30 participants with left-side arterial ischemic stroke, 30 with left-side hemorrhagic stroke, and 30 healthy siblings as controls, then test language skills and brain activity. The goal is to map which brain areas support language over the long term and how this changes from childhood into young adulthood. The study builds on earlier findings showing that the right side can take over language tasks after left-hemisphere injury.

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Where this research is happening

• Georgetown University
  Washington, United States Active

Researchers

• Principal investigator: Newport, Elissa L — Georgetown University
• Study coordinator: Newport, Elissa L

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