Recruitment of the left pre-central gyrus in reading epilepsy: A multimodal neuroimaging study

Conclusion This study is the first to investigate ictogenesis in reading epilepsy during both lexical and phonological reading while using three different multimodal neuroimaging techniques. The somatosensory and motor control functions of the left pre-central gyrus that are congruently involved in lexical as well as phonological reading can explain the identical spike localization in both reading pathways. The concurrence between our findings in this study and those from our previous one support the role of the left pre-central gyrus in phonological output computation as well as seizure activity in a case of reading epilepsy.

Source: Epilepsy and Behavior Case Reports - January 21, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: research