title: Postictal language dysfunction in complex partial seizures: effect of contralateral ictal spread.
abstract: The authors report postictal language evaluation in patients monitored with bitemporal depth electrodes. Patients whose seizures began in the nondominant temporal lobe and propagated to the contralateral temporal lobe had a prolonged postictal language delay (PILD) with paraphasic errors compared with seizures that did not spread. Shorter propagation time was also associated with a longer PILD. Our study suggests that ictal involvement of the dominant temporal lobe is important in postictal language behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, OH 45267-0525, USA. david.ficker@uc.edu
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Ficker
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shukla
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Privitera
mesh_terms: D001037:Aphasia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D017029:Epilepsy, Complex Partial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans