Over the course of recovery from aphasia, different neuroplastic mechanisms are triggered in response to the stroke event that could mediate the recovery of language functions over time. The present project focuses on two possible inter-related neuroplastic mechanisms that may contribute to the recovery from aphasia, i.e. the axonal remodeling and the reorganization of the functional language network.
The role of sex in the neuroplastic mechanisms of recovery from aphasia in general or, more specifically, in the abovementioned two mechanisms has not been investigated yet.