Emotional asymmetries in refractory medial temporal and frontal lobe epilepsy: Their impact on predicting lateralization and localization of seizures

ConclusionsWe provide evidence for an anterior-frontal versus a posterior-medial temporal cerebral functional asymmetry with regard to the manifestation of manic and depressive emotional traits in FLE and MTLE, respectively. Our results are mainly discussed within the frame of their contribution in localizing and to a lesser extent in lateralizing seizures foci in epilepsy surgery candidates. We suggest that this is of great importance in the context of preoperative monitoring of epilepsy surgery, especially when neuropsychologists are called upon to provide anatomical information in defining the functional deficit zone.
Source: Epilepsy and Behavior - Category: Neurology Source Type: research