Brain tumours such as gliomas infiltrate surrounding brain tissue, including areas involved in language function. Although survival is improved with extensive tumour resection, there can be permanent ...

In a study designed to differentiate why some stroke patients recover from aphasia and others do not, investigators have found that a compensatory reorganization of language function to right ...

Damage to the brain’s left side often undermines language abilities. Occasionally, so does right-brain damage. Still, a lucky few individuals can suffer injury to either side and retain their verbal ...

These are individual scans of two healthy controls and two individuals with a left-hemisphere (LH) perinatal stroke. The orange/yellow activation shows the normal language areas of the left hemisphere ...

One of the most persistent neuroscience myths (neuromyth) is that the "left brain" is universally the seat of language and logical reasoning; while the "right brain" facilitates creativity and ...

The process through which our brain developed into a language-ready brain has been better understood by neuroscientists. The network of connections between language centres in our brains has grown ...

David Abbott receives fellowship funding from the Australian National Imaging Facility. He has received grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia), the Australian ...

Learning a second language may help improve brain function regardless of when you start, according to a new study. Researchers found that young adults proficient in two languages performed better on ...