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NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 556-565Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.17.4.556
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This study investigates the effects of left versus right mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) on Wechsler intelligence factors. In the left MTLE group, the Verbal Comprehension (VC) factor score was significantly lower than the Perceptual Organization (PO) factor score, whereas in the right MTLE group, the PO factor score was significantly lower than the VC factor score. The VC factor score was significantly lower for the left than the right MTLE group, whereas the PO factor score was significantly lower for the right than the left MTLE group. Thus, left versus right MTLE was associated with relative deficits in verbal versus nonverbal intelligence, respectively. These findings indicate that lateralized cognitive deficits in unilateral MTLE patients are not limited to the learning-memory domain but include more global intelligence functions.
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