[Electrophysiologic features of sleep and wakefulness in focal epilepsy with lateralization of the focus to the left and right cerebral hemispheres].
Forty-two epileptic patients with distinct localization of the focus in the left (22 patients) and the right (20 subjects) hemispheres of the brain were subjected to a combined electrophysiological examination including electroencephalography at rest and under intellectual exertion and also polygraphic recording of the night dream pattern. On the basis of the data obtained the authors analyze the function of the cerebral nonspecific activating and deactivating systems in relation to the localization of the focus. The differences detected are suggestive of the functional insufficiency of the activating mechanisms in the left lateral localization of the focus as compared with the right lateral one. The feasibility of utilizing the findings obtained in the differential management of epilepsy (with the lateralization of the epileptic focus taken into account) is discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000502:physiology
Elektrofiziologicheskie osobennosti sna i bodrstvovaniia pri ochagovoĭ épilepsii s lateralizatsieĭ fokusa v levom i pravom polushariiakh golovnogo mozga.