Singing ‘rewires’ damaged brain

Jun 25, 2010 English 1st Paragraph

Teaching stroke patients to sing “rewires” their brains, helping them recover their speech, say scientists. By singing, patients use a different area of the brain from the area involved in speech. If a person’s “speech centre” is damaged by a stroke, they can learn to use their “singing centre” instead…

Read this on the BBC.

• When you rewire a building or a machine, you put a new system of electric wires into it.
• A stroke is a sudden change in the blood supply to a part of the brain. This can result in a paralysis (= loss of the ability to move) of  some parts of the body.