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The objective of this prospective multiple-cases longitudinal study is to describe brain activity in response to unilateral vocal fold paralysis (UVFP) management and to follow central nervous system adaptation over time in three patients with different nervous and vocal recovery profiles.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials and methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Participants were enrolled within 3 months of the onset of UVFP. Within 1 year of the injury, the first patient did not recover voice or vocal fold mobility despite voice therapy, the second patient recovered voice and mobility in absence of treatment and the third patient recovered voice and vocal fold mobility following an injection augmentation with hyaluronic acid in the paralyzed vocal fold. These different evolutions allowed comparison of individual outcomes according to nervous and vocal recovery. All three patients underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI task and resting-state) scans at three (patient 1) or four (patients 2 and 3) time points. The fMRI task included three conditions: a condition of phonation and audition of the sustained [a:] vowel for 3 s, an audition condition of this vowel and a resting condition. Acoustic and aerodynamic measures as well as laryngostroboscopic images and laryngeal electromyographic data were collected.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results and conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study highlighted for the first time two key findings. First, hyperactivation during the fMRI phonation task was observed at the first time point following the onset of UVFP and this hyperactivation was related to an increase in resting-state connectivity between previoulsy described phonatory regions of interest. Second, for the patient who received an augmentation injection in the paralyzed vocal fold, we subsequently observed a bilateral activation of the voice-related nuclei in the brainstem. 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