Utility of the Boston Naming Test in Predicting Ultimate Side of Surgery in Patients with Medically Intractable Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Summary:  Purpose: Confrontation naming tasks have long been presumed to be sensitive to left temporal dysfunction and, consequently, are frequently used in the evaluation of surgical epilepsy patients. Despite wide and frequent use, few studies have examined the utility of confrontation naming tasks in individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).

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