Phyllis,

We have a statistics post in the Classics forum but I'm not sure it's the one you're thinking of.

Jean

Phyllis -

mine was an acute right brain CVA - got the right frontal lobe, the parietal and most of the cerebrum -

i'm 39 yrs old (40 in April :blush: )

I did find this on this but I don't think this is exactly what you are looking for: http://www.strokecenter.org/pat/stroke_types.htm

but this might be - go to page 23 of this report by the CDC:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_228.pdf

Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2004, table 1, Appendix III table IV

Stroke was in Left Mid-cerebral artery because of an undiagnosed PFO and I was in my mid 40's.

I came across this information which I thiught was interesting.

Right Side - Left Side

The right side of the brain controls muscles on the left side of the body and the left side of the brain controls muscles on the right side of the body. Also, in general, sensory information from the left side of the body crosses over to the right side of the brain and information from the right side of the body crosses over to the left side of the brain. Therefore, damage to one side of the brain will affect the opposite side of the body.

In 95% of right-handers, the left side of the brain is dominant for language. Even in 60-70% of left-handers, the left side of brain is used for language. Back in the 1860s and 1870s, two neurologists (Paul Broca and Karl Wernicke) observed that people who had damage to a particular area on the left side of the brain had speech and language problems. People with damage to these areas on the right side usually did not have any language problems. The two language areas of the brain that are important for language now bear their names: Broca's area and Wernicke's area.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/functional.html

Mary

Mary,

My husband had a left side stroke, and minimal speech loss. He is left handed. We were told that only 3% by our Therapist(s) and Dr that of the population who is left handed truely has the speech in the right side of their brain.

-Karen