Wada Memory Disparities Predict Seizure Laterality and Postoperative Seizure Control

Epilepsia

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 851-856

  Perrine, Kenneth ^a   Westerveld, Michael ^b   Sass, Kimberlee J ^b   Spencer, Dennis D ^b   Devinsky, Orrin ^a   Dogali, Michael ^a   Nelson, Peter Kim ^c   Luciano, Daniel J ^a  

^a Department of Neurology ^*  (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Amobarbital Wada test; Memory Epilepsy Epilepsy surgery

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL;

ADULT; AMNESIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMOBARBITAL; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LATERALITY; MALE; MEMORY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029078688     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1995.tb01627.x     Document Type: Article

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