Language-related hemispheric asymmetry in healthy subjects and patients with temporal lobe epilepsy as studied by event-related brain potentials and intracarotid amobarbital test

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Evoked Potentials

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 274-282

  Gerschlager, W ^a   Lalouschek, W ^a   Lehrner, J ^a   Baumgartner, C ^a   Lindinger, G ^a   Lang, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Hemispheric asymmetries; Temporal lobe epilepsy; WADA test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; AMOBARBITAL; CAROTID ARTERIES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0031837865     PISSN: 01685597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-5597(97)00099-3     Document Type: Article

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