Recent studies have claimed that language functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can identify language lateralization in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and that fMRI-based findings are highly concordant with the conventional assessment procedure of speech dominance, the intracarotid amobarbital test (IAT).
Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria, and Department of Neurology, University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. thomas.benke@uibk.ac.at
