[Temporal-lobe epilepsy with psychosensory and gustatory attacks].

A variety of temporal epilepsy that manifested by paroxysms in the form of psychosensory and gustatory ones is described. A 20-year-old man was placed under observation. Since 14 years of age he demonstrated attack-like conditions with a sensation of the pushing apart and swelling in the head, of an increase of the head size, and unpleasant sickly sweet taste in the mouth.

[Neuropsychological disorders in vitamin B 12 deficiency].

Vitamin B12 deficiency is often attended by neuropsychic disorders. In the geriatric population, the level of vitamin B12 is mostly reduced. However, the clinical manifestations and pathogenesis are not completely specified.

[Treatment of epilepsy in children with regard to the functional asymmetry of cerebral hemispheres].

Altogether 40 children suffering from epilepsy with a focus of epileptic activity in the right hemisphere were treated. Analysis is made of the dependence of the efficacy of benzonal and finlepsin on the individual characteristics of functional asymmetry of the brain hemispheres. Benzonal turned out effective in the treatment of the right-handed with the dominant by speech left hemisphere.

[Functional asymmetry of the brain in children with epilepsy].

In 50 patients with partial forms of epilepsy the authors investigated the dominance of the cerebral hemispheres with regard to speech, using the method of dichotic listening for this purpose. The characteristics of the manifestation of speech-related predominance of the hemispheres in different types of lateralization of the epileptic focus, as well as its dynamics in the course of the disease are presented. Particular attention was paid to changes of the speech domination in children with epilepsy.