Meanings
adjectivetranshemispheric (not comparable)
- not comparableAcross the hemispheres (of the brain)
A stroke has not only a detrimental effect on the directly affected tissue, but it can also impact more distant regions and to some extent even the contralateral hemisphere, causing a transhemispheric diaschisis [1, 2 ].
2015 September 15, “A Small Motor Cortex Lesion Abolished Ocular Dominance Plasticity in the Adult Mouse Primary Visual Cortex and Impaired Experience-Dependent Visual Improvements”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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