[Treatment of epilepsy in children with regard to the functional asymmetry of cerebral hemispheres].

Altogether 40 children suffering from epilepsy with a focus of epileptic activity in the right hemisphere were treated. Analysis is made of the dependence of the efficacy of benzonal and finlepsin on the individual characteristics of functional asymmetry of the brain hemispheres. Benzonal turned out effective in the treatment of the right-handed with the dominant by speech left hemisphere. The treatment with finlepsin was more successful in children who manifested alterations in functional asymmetry of the hemispheres (right-handed and ambidextrous, children with the dominant by speech right hemisphere or with equal participation of both hemispheres in the maintenance of speech functions.