Observations Following Left (Dominant) Temporal Lobectomy

Comprehensive studies of the physiologic and psychologic changes subsequent to cerebral lobectomy in man are sufficiently rare to justify reporting an individual case. This approach to the problem of cerebral localization of function has been, for obvious reasons, seldom used in the past. Its possibilities indicate the advisability of such investigations on all suitable clinical material. The present report is the result of a cooperative study of a patient following left (dominant) temporal lobectomy. REPORT OF A CASE History. —W. O., a white man, aged 28, entered the hospital with the chief complaint of attacks of numbness and twitching on the right side. The first symptom was a generalized convulsion, two years before admission. This was followed by occasional similar attacks at about weekly intervals and by minor seizures, occurring once or twice a day, which involved the right hand and which were preceded by numbness of the entire right