title: [Functional cerebral lateralization: neurobiology and clinical aspects in childhood].
abstract: Anatomical and functional evidences of cerebral hemispheric asymmetries are reviewed in reference to fetal life, infancy and childhood. In general, left hemisphere deals with linguistic-sequenced-analytic-logic-deductive cognitive processing, whereas the right hemisphere is involved in spatial-simultaneous-inductive-intuitive tasks; attention and interactional functions predominate on the right hemisphere, too. The clinical and technological means to diagnose the functional lateralization in individual patients are discussed. A critical review is made of abnormal lateralizations and interhemispheric supplencies in various neuropsychiatric conditions of childhood: learning disabilities, epilepsy, attention deficit disorder, mental deficiency with chromosomopathies and infantile autism.
authors.affiliation: Dpto. de Pediatría, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Narbona García
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology; D010802:Phylogeny
vernacular_title: Lateralización funcional cerebral: neurobiología y clínica en la infancia.