Right Hemisphere Language Dominance in a Right-Handed Patient with Late-Onset Seizures

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 281-286

  Boatman, Dana ^a   Alidoost, Moona ^a   Bergey, Gregory ^a   Gordon, Barry ^a   Crone, Nathan ^a   Hart, John ^a   Lenz, Frederick ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Right hemisphere language; language lateralization; late onset seizures; epilepsy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012598155     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ebeh.2000.0079     Document Type: Article

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