Alexandria Thompson speaks multiple languages. She also suffers from severe seizures that force her mind to switch to Spanish.
Medications couldn’t control her seizures which forced her doctors at Duke to control them surgically. They mapped her brain with electrodes to figure out where the language information was stored and removed part of it to save her speaking abilities – and her life.
Michael Haglund, MD, PhD, said they were able to preserve all of the speech portions of her brain.