Language lateralization in children with pre-and postnatal epileptogenic lesions of the left hemisphere: An fMRI study

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Hadač, Jan ^a,d   Brožová, Kateřina ^a   Tintěra, Jaroslav ^b   Kršek, Pavel ^c  

^a Thomayer Hospital   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

^d Child Neurology Dept   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Acquired lesions; Children; Developmental lesions; Epilepsy; Functional MRI; Language dominance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE DURATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ONSET AGE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 40449137340     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2007.0149     Document Type: Article

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