A clinical study conducted by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center has found that for children who had a major stroke to the left hemisphere of their brain within days of their birth, the infant’s brain was «plastic» enough for the right hemisphere to acquire the language abilities ordinarily handled by the left side, while also maintaining its own language abilities.
After a stroke in an infant’s brain, the right side of the brain compensates for loss of language in the left side
A clinical study conducted by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center has found that for children who had a major stroke to the left hemisphere of their brain within days of their birth, the infant's brain was "plastic" enough for the right hemisphere to acquire the language abilities ordinarily handled by the left side, while also maintaining its own language abilities.