Talking heads (Rebuilding language after stroke) (HD) | A film by the Wellcome Trust

Stroke can affect any part of the brain, resulting in the death of tissue vital for the brains normal functions - language, for example. In this film, we meet Tess and Michael, both of whom have had a stroke affecting language but in very different ways. We also meet Professor Cathy Price and Dr Alex Leff of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimagings Language Group, a team using fMRI to better understand how language works in the brains of both healthy volunteers and stroke patients in the hope that understanding one will help rehabilitate the other. If you would like to volunteer, email stroke@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk
http://www.differentstrokes.co.uk/
http://www.stroke.org.uk/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• stroke
• MRI
• brain injury
• brain damage
• neuroscience
• neurology
• fMRI
• magnetic resonance imaging
• rehabilitation
• speech therapy
• language
• talking
• documentary
• science
• volunteers
• Wellcome Trust
• Cathy Price
• Alex Leff
• Different Strokes
• The Stroke Association
• Key Stage 4
• Key Stage 5

[lucillelerke]

blinkyreadsbooks You could be having a severe migraine.

[heartslord]

A typical post-stroke patient that comes to our office has aphasic speech and partial loss of hearing and vision on one side as well as ambulatory problems. Those same patients can dance the jig after six patients. This is the norm though some strokes may be more severe. Patients walking in to the clinic as in this video are very likely to receive this result. The treatment? Master Level Acupuncture.

It's tremendous and precludes endless therapy.

[therealdealdoc]

Really powerful insight into the impact a stroke can have on speech - and how research is helping understand recovery. Amazing real life stories too.