Differential functional reorganization of ventral and dorsal visual pathways following childhood hemispherectomy.

ABSTRACT: Hemispherectomy is a surgical procedure in which an entire hemisphere of a patient's brain is resected or functionally disconnected to manage seizures in individuals with drug-resistant epilepsy. Despite the extensive loss of both ventral and dorsal visual pathways in one hemisphere, pediatric patients who have undergone hemispherectomy show a remarkably high degree of perceptual function across many domains. In the current study, we sought to understand the extent to which functions of the ventral and dorsal visual pathways reorganize to the contralateral hemisphere following childhood hemispherectomy. To this end, we collected fMRI data from an equal number of left and right hemispherectomy patients who completed tasks that typically elicit lateralized responses from the ventral or the d

SUBMITTER: Ayzenberg V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10682827 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature