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Evaluation of Hemisphere Lateralization with Bilateral Local Field Potential Recording in Secondary Motor Cortex of Mice
Published on: July 31, 2019
[Functional cerebral lateralization: neurobiology and clinical aspects in childhood]
1Dpto. de Pediatría, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona.
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.
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