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Functional MRI assessment of the hemispheric predominance for language in epileptic patients using a simple rhyme detection task Volume 3, numéro 3, September 2001

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Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, UMR CNRS 5105, Université Pierre-Mendès-France, 151, rue des Universités, Domaine universitaire, BP 47, 38400 Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France.
  • Page(s) : 117-24
  • Année de parution : 2001

Having been used for more than fifty years, surgery has become a reliable and effective way of treating intractable partial epilepsy. An increasing number of epileptic patients now undergo surgery in the many epilepsy surgery centers. The goal of epilepsy surgery is to remove the "epileptogenic zone", i.e. the cortical area considered to be responsible for the generation of epileptic seizures. Presurgical investigations must be conducted [...]