Abstract #3565

Language Processing in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Extra Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Using Functional MRI

Kapil Chaudhary¹, S. Senthil Kumaran², Manjari Tripathi¹, Sarat P. Chandra³

¹Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India; ²Department of NMR, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India; ³Department of Neuro-Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Language is assumed to be lateralized to the left brain hemisphere. Most of the patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy usually have language deficits, associated with the disease. In extra temporal lobe epilepsy, frontal lobe lesion affects some of the language components as well memory. Effectiveness of language reorganisation in LTLE and ETLE patients in surgery planning is studied.