Purpose: To characterize the relation between hemispheric asymmetries in language-specific brain activity and reading/spelling achievement by using magnetoencephalography (MEG).
Methods: Patients (n = 83) with medically intractable complex partial seizures of either left- or right-hemisphere origin were classified as having reading and/or spelling deficits (RS) or as not impaired (NI) by using standard achievement tests. All patients had undergone noninvasive functional mapping of receptive language cortex by using MEG as part of a preoperative seizure surgery evaluation.
Results: RS patients with left-hemisphere seizure onset exhibited relatively greater activation and earlier onset of late, language-specific MEG activity in posterior temporal and inferior parietal areas of the right as compared with the left hemisphere than did NI patients. These findings also were evident on an individual basis and were independent of global intellectual abilities.
Conclusions: Reading and spelling achievement deficits in patients with complex partial seizures of left-hemisphere origin are associated with atypical language organization, possibly secondary to reorganization of language function to right-hemisphere areas that are not as efficient as homotopic areas in the left hemisphere in supporting reading and spelling functions.
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