title: Visual laterality effects and cerebral speech dominance determined by the carotid Amytal test.
abstract: Epileptic patients whose speech dominance had been ascertained using the carotid Amytal test were given a verbal-visual half-field task. Patients with left-hemisphere speech dominance, like normal controls, tended to show a RVF effect whereas patients with atypical speech patterns showed a bias in favor of the LVF.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000654:Amobarbital; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D000654:Amobarbital