Washington D.C., March 29 -- : Researchers have found that analysing the brains of stroke patients just days after the stroke can help them link various speech functions to different parts of the brain. The recent study from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine may lead to better treatment and recovery of stroke patients.

The study, 'Dissociation between frontal and temporal-parietal contributions to connected speech in acute stroke' will appear in an upcoming edition of the journal Brain.

Study co-author Randi Martin, the Elma W. Schneider Professor of Psychology at Rice, worked with a team of researchers led by Tatiana Schnur, associate professor of neurosurgery and neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine, to evaluate t...