It took me four years to figure this out. The gray matter(cerebrum) is only a couple of millimeters thick. 6 cell-layers thick. This could have been solved years ago by my doctors giving me a 3d map of the brain All the stuff under it is just neurons connecting to each other. So I have to assume that my MCA infarct killed off a lot of those neurons too. And since no one has any clue what the connections went to, it finally starts to make sense that doctors don't give you a damage diagnosis, they let the therapists figure out the deficits by trial and error.
Pictures here:
http://health.allrefer.com/health/white-matter-of-the-brain-gray-and-white-matter-of-the-brain.html
This does now start to explain why my sensation is not that good, the sensory cortex probably routed thru what is now dead white matter and is having a hard time getting the neurons to reconnect.
Knowing this doesn't really help me plan out my recovery but it will make more sense of some of the targeted neural growth factors.
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