PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Amobarbital, Partial Seizure, Temporal Lobe
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Lateralization: the brain is not bilaterally the same, functions differ in each hemisphere. Historical perspective (ww2, brain damage in adults: adult patients with left hemisphere (lh) damage: During hospital recovery it was found that 100% of these patients (when bullet wound was in left side showed some aphasic (aphasia is problems in language/speech) symptoms. Approximately 30% will show some recovery, at varying degrees. Those that showed recovery were all left-handed/ambidextrous patients (lhp). Least amount of recovery was in right-handed patients. Since 100% of patients showed some language problems with left. Hemisphere damage, clearly left hemisphere is associated with language: adult patients with right hemisphere (rh) damage: Found in these patients that they showed very few language problems and rarely did it lead to complete aphasia. The % of patients that did show aphasic symptoms with rh damage were all lhp. Furthermore, most patients showed recovery from language problems as a result of rh damage.
