Left-sided interictal epileptic activity induces shift of language lateralization in temporal lobe epilepsy: An fMRI study

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 921-927

  Janszky, Jozsef ^a,b   Mertens, Markus ^a   Janszky, Imre ^c,d   Ebner, Alois ^a   Woermann, Friedrich G ^a  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Interictal epileptiform discharges; Language reorganization; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Transient cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STUDENT T TEST; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCLEROSIS; STATISTICS; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCLEROSIS; SPEECH; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 33745255059     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00514.x     Document Type: Article

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