Video feature: Talking heads (rebuilding language after stroke)

26 November 2009

Stroke can affect any part of the brain, resulting in the death of tissue vital for the brain’s normal functions, including language. In this film we meet Tess and Michael, who have each had a stroke affecting language in very different ways.

We also meet Professor Cathy Price and Dr Alex Leff of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging's 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 the former will help rehabilitate the latter.

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Running time: 4 min 10 s

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If you are interested in participating in the study, email stroke@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk.