Left hippocampal pathology is associated with atypical language lateralization in patients with focal epilepsy

Brain

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 346-351

  Weber, Bernd ^a   Wellmer, Jörg ^a   Reuber, Markus ^b   Mormann, Florian ^a   Weis, Susanne ^a   Urbach, Horst ^a   Ruhlmann, Jürgen ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a   Fernández, Guillén ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; fMRI; Hippocampus; Language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 31544456383     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh694     Document Type: Article

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