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. 2006 Sep;9(2):345-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2006.06.011. Epub 2006 Aug 4.

Language dominance in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: a functional transcranial Doppler sonography study of brain plasticity

Susanne Knake  1 , Anja Haag, Guido Pilgramm, Christine Dittmer, Janine Reis, Heike Assmann, Wolfgang H Oertel, Felix Rosenow, Hajo M Hamer
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Language dominance in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: a functional transcranial Doppler sonography study of brain plasticity

Susanne Knake et al. Epilepsy Behav. 2006 Sep.

Abstract

Functional transcranial Doppler sonography was used to study hemispheric language dominance (HLD) in 24 right-handed patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and a structural lesion in the left temporal lobe and in 69 healthy controls. Twenty-five percent of the patients and 4% of controls showed atypical (right or bilateral) HLD. Degree of HLD was not correlated with age, Full Scale IQ, Verbal IQ, spike frequency, seizure frequency, age at seizure onset, or duration of TLE. Atypical HLD appears to be lesion-induced, independent of epilepsy characteristics.

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