Research
Main research directions
Neuroplasticity in stroke recovery
Neuroplasticity in pediatric/adult epilepsy surgery
Experience-dependent plasticity in healthy individuals across the lifespan
Representative media coverage
“The Brain That Remade Itself” OneZero — Medium
https://onezero.medium.com/the-brain-that-remade-itself-bcc7b3a43cff
“When surgeons removed one sixth of a child’s brain, here’s what happened.” — CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/31/health/surgeons-remove-part-of-childs-brain-case-study/index.html
“A 12-year-old had one-sixth of his brain removed. He feels ‘perfectly normal.’” — Washington Post
“Boy recovers normal life after losing big part of his brain” — NBC News
“A child lost a sixth of his brain, then made an amazing comeback.” — PBS News Hour
“Epileptic Girl Who Had Half Her Brain Removed Can Read After Organ Rewired Itself” — Newsweek
“Children’s brains reorganize after epilepsy surgery to retain visual perception – NIH-funded study shows that in children, the brain can compensate for missing regions of the visual cortex” — NIH News