Which skills were greatly affected by the removal of his dominant left hemisphere?

This case study refutes Lashley's law of equipotentiality.

Age 17 systematic testing and fMRI scanning showed EB still had some minor issues with language; which of the following was not a problem for him?

EB's case study shows that people can make a complete recovery following left side hemispherectomy.

The problems EB faced at 17 may still have been present regardless of the hemispherectomy limiting what we can learn from case studies such as this.

One reason EB might have made such a good recovery may have been due to ...

De la Para found that people over 40 recovered ................. function than under 40s following brain injury.

People aged 40-60 showed significant changes in the motor cortex following training in which sport?

Adults are also able to make staggeringly swift recoveries from severe brain injuries, e.g. US politician .... shot in the head at close range in an assassination attempt.

Some studies of plasticity suggest that women recover better than men.

Number of years of education is unrelated to recovery from stroke

When EB was 2.5 years old he started to suffer from...

EB was .... handed before surgery

FMRI brain imaging showed more activity in the ................ whilst reading compared with age-matched controls

Aged 17, the FMRI brain scans showed that whilst reading EB had inferior activity in the ....compared with matched controls

EB showed signs of .............. suggesting that the right hemisphere was not able to take over reading function as successfully as other language based skills.