Anatomy of handedness and the laterality of seizure onset: Surgical implications of new understandings in motor control

Neurological Research

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 773-779

  Derakhshan, I ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; False lateralization; Motor control; Neural handedness

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROSURGERY; RESPONSE TIME; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEIZURES;

EID: 27244443959     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164105X49238     Document Type: Review

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