Bertha I Zapata-López, Norma L Delgado-Villamizar, Doris Cardona-Arango
[Social and family support to the elderly in urban areas]
Revista de salud publica (Bogota, Colombia)
present case 14yearold girl born without left hemisphere due prenatal left internal carotid occlusion combined longitudinal language cognitive assessments functional structural neuroimaging data situate case within agematched typically developing children despite delay getting language ground preschool years case performed within normal range variety standardized language tests exceptionally well phonology word reading elementary middle school years moreover spatial number reasoning skills also fell average aboveaverage range based assessments time periods functional mri data revealed activation right frontotemporal areas listening short stories resembling bilateral activation patterns agematched typically developing children diffusion mri data showed significantly larger dorsal white matter association tracts direct anterior segments arcuate fasciculus connecting areas active language processing remaining right hemisphere compared either hemisphere control children hypothesize changes functional structural brain organization result compensatory brain plasticity manifesting unusually large right dorsal tracts exceptional performance phonology speech repetition decoding specifically posit cases large white matter connections might played compensatory role providing fast reliable transfer information cortical areas language right hemisphere