Amobarbital Effects and Lateralized Brain Function: The Wada Test
The intracarotid amobarbital (or Amytal) procedure is commonly referred to as the Wada test in tribute to Juhn Wada, the physician who devised the technique and performed the fIrst basic animal research and clinical studies with this method. Wada testing has become an integral part of the pre operative evaluation for epilepsy surgery. Interestingly, however, Wada initially developed this method as a technique to assess language dominance in psychiatric patients in order that electroconvulsant therapy could be applied unilaterally to the non-dominant hemisphere. Epilepsy surgery has matured as a viable treatment for intractable seizures and i…
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Weitere Autoren: Meador, Kimford J. / Lee, Gregory P.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-97738-6
- EAN: 9780387977386
- Produktnummer: 22012583
- Verlag: Springer Nature
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
- Seitenangabe: 138 S.
- Masse: 445 g
- Auflage: 1992
- Gewicht: 445
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