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No indication of brain reorganization after unilateral ischemic lesions of the auditory cortex.

Sörös P, Dziewas R, Manemann E, Teismann IK, Lütkenhöner B

Department of Imaging Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada. peter.soros@sri.utoronto.ca

We used magnetoencephalography to study contralesional auditory reorganization in three men with chronic unilateral ischemic lesions of the auditory cortex. Although no response was found over the lesioned hemisphere, processing in the unaffected hemisphere was indistinguishable vs healthy controls. In contrast to sensorimotor and language systems, the auditory system seems to lack contralateral reorganization, presumably because patients are typically not aware of hearing deficits and thus do not perform training.

Published 26 September 2006 in Neurology, 67(6): 1059-61.
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