Effects of Language Training in a Left Handed Individual with Chronic Aphasia as a Result of Right Hemisphere Stroke

Little is known about language recovery, brain reorganization and treatment responsiveness in ‘atypical’ left-handed individuals (i.e., right-hemisphere dominant for language processing) suffering from aphasia after right hemisphere (RH) stroke. The present case study involves a chronic aphasia patient with strong left handedness and familial sinistrality who suffered from aphasia following an extended RH stroke. To assess the neural concomitants of anomia treatment, the individual was evaluated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) prior to, immediately after and 8-months after an intensive naming…