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Amobarbital Effects and Lateralized Brain Function

The Wada Test

Authors:

  1. David W. Loring

    1. Section of Behavioral Neurology Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, USA

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  2. Kimford J. Meador

    1. Section of Behavioral Neurology Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, USA

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  3. Gregory P. Lee

    1. Department of Psychiatry and Department of Surgery (Neurosurgery), Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, USA

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  4. Don W. King

    1. Epilepsy Diagnostic and Treatment Unit Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, USA

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Language

    • David W. Loring, Kimford J. Meador, Gregory P. Lee, Don W. King
    Pages 1-23

  3. Memory

    • David W. Loring, Kimford J. Meador, Gregory P. Lee, Don W. King
    Pages 24-62

  4. EEG and Neurologic Functions

    • David W. Loring, Kimford J. Meador, Gregory P. Lee, Don W. King
    Pages 63-70

  5. Attention

    • David W. Loring, Kimford J. Meador, Gregory P. Lee, Don W. King
    Pages 71-88

  6. Emotion

    • David W. Loring, Kimford J. Meador, Gregory P. Lee, Don W. King
    Pages 89-108

  7. MCG Wada Protocol

    • David W. Loring, Kimford J. Meador, Gregory P. Lee, Don W. King
    Pages 109-117

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 118-138
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About this book

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 is no longer confmed to a few major universities and medical institutes. Yet, as is increasingly clear by examining the surveys of approaches used by epilepsy surgery centers (e.g., Rausch, 1987; Snyder, Novelly, & Harris, 1990), there is not only great heterogeneity in the methods used during Wada testing to assess language and memory functions, but there also seems to be a lack of consensus regarding the theoretical assumptions, and perhaps, even the goals of this procedure.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Section of Behavioral Neurology Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, USA

    David W. Loring, Kimford J. Meador

  • Department of Psychiatry and Department of Surgery (Neurosurgery), Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, USA

    Gregory P. Lee

  • Epilepsy Diagnostic and Treatment Unit Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, USA

    Don W. King

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Amobarbital Effects and Lateralized Brain Function

  • Book Subtitle: The Wada Test

  • Authors: David W. Loring, Kimford J. Meador, Gregory P. Lee, Don W. King

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2874-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-97738-6Due: 18 December 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7704-0Published: 31 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-2874-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 138

  • Topics: Neuropsychology, Neurosciences, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry

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