title: A review of cognitive outcome after unilateral lesions sustained during childhood.
abstract: Views on human brain organization early in development have swung back and forth between the extreme notions of complete equipotentiality and adult-like specialization. Recent research on the cognitive effects of early brain damage supports an intermediate position and suggests that many claims on the older literature must be re-examined in the light of new evidence that cognitive impairments are sometimes attributable to previously ignored factors, such as a history of seizures, time since injury, and unsuspected lesions that are now detectable with neuroimaging techniques.
authors: Neurosciences Unit, Wolfson Centre, Mecklenburgh Square, London.
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Vargha-Khadem
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Isaacs
authors: V
authors: V
authors: Muter
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors