All Posts: stroke

• After Stroke in an Infant’s Brain, Right Side of Brain Compensates for Loss of Language in Left Side

  As Children with Left-hemisphere Strokes Grow Up, Ability to Understand Language Shifts to Right side. WASHINGTON (October 10, 2022) — A clinical study conducted by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center 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 […]

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• Critical Period After Stroke Study (CPASS): A Phase II Clinical Trial Testing an Optimal Time for Motor Recovery After Stroke in Humans

  For the first time, stroke study reveals optimal timing of intensive arm and hand rehabilitation. Intensive Additional Rehabilitation is most effective 60 to 90 days after a stroke WASHINGTON (September 20, 2021) — A phase II randomized clinical trial found that the optimal period for intensive rehabilitation of arm and hand use after a stroke should begin […]

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• Insights Into How a Stroke Affects Reading Could Help With Rehabilitation

  WASHINGTON (August 29, 2021) — Georgetown University researchers, looking at the ability of people to sound out words after a stroke, found that knowing which region of the brain was impacted by the stroke could have important implications for helping target rehabilitation efforts. The finding appeared August 30, 2021, in Brain Communications. “One in five […]

  Category: News Release Tags: aphasia, brain, mind, rehabilitation, stroke