Naslov
Language development following early brain injury: Capability for functional reorganization in children

Autori
Brozović, Blaženka ; Ljubešić, Marta ; Mejaški-Bošnjak, Vlatka ; Đuranović, Vlasta

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
A Supplement of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Program 1999 / - Hanover (MA) : Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 1999, 98-98

Skup
Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 1999

Mjesto i datum
Sjedinjene Američke Države, 10.04.1999. - 13.04.1999

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Language; brain plasticity; brain injury; functional reorganization

Sažetak
Brain organization of language abilities in children is concidered to be different from that in adults. The fact that affects of brain lesions in children and adults are qualitatively and quantitatively different speaks in favor of this claim. The aim of this study was to define a course of language development following early brain injury in subjects with a comparable type of lesions but with a different hemisphere involvement. Five children with pre-perinatal infarct of middle cerebral artery were studied longitudinally. Two subjects suffered left hemisphere lesion, one had right-sided lesion while the other two had both hemisphere affected. In all cases diagnoses was established using US scans, cerebral-blood-flow-velocity measurement and either CT scen or MRI. Language and cognitive development was followed by means of MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories, Reynell Developmental Language Scales and Munich Developmental Functional Diagnostics. Results showed initial language delay in all subjects. Final testing revealed that all subjects still had some kind of residual deficits. However. subjects with left-sided lesions reached highest level of cognitive and language development. Reorganizational processes in these two subjects seem to have enabled development of language abilities in spite of massive lesions of the left hemisphere. On the other hand subjects with both sided lesions and early neonatal convulsions had the worst outcome.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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