[Functional asymmetry of the brain in patients with epilepsy]

Individual functional brain asymmetry profiles were different in epileptic patients and healthy individuals. The patients displayed reduced from 39.6% to 17.8% incidence of left profile and increased incidence of combined profile (from 60.4% to 81.5%). The relationship of functional asymmetry profiles to sex, lateralization of epileptic focus and clinical course of the disease was described, the regularities of the profiles' changes in the course of the disease analyzed.