학술논문
The resilience of the developing reading system: multi-modal evidence of incident and recovery after a pediatric stroke.
Document Type
Case Study
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Subject
*TEMPORAL lobe
*ISCHEMIC stroke
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ISSN
1355-4794
Abstract
Decades of neuroscientific findings have elucidated the highly specialized brain areas involved in reading, especially along the ventral occipitotemporal stream where the critical step of recognizing words occurs. We report on a 14-year-old female with temporary dyslexia after a left ventral occipitotemporal ischemic stroke. Our longitudinal multimodal findings show that the resolution of the reading impairment was associated with heightened activity in the left posterior superior and inferior temporal gyri. Our findings highlight the role of the left inferior temporal gyrus in reading and the importance of perilesional and ipsilateral cortical areas for functional recovery after childhood stroke. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]