Is speech arrest during Wada testing a valid method for determining hemispheric representation of language?

Brain and Language

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 441-446

  Benbadis, Selim R ^a   Binder, Jeffrey R ^b   Swanson, Sara J ^b   Fischer, Mariellen ^b   Hammeke, Thomas A ^b   Morris, George L ^b   Frost, Julie A ^b   Springer, Jane A ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amobarbital; Epilepsy surgery; Language; Wada test

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; READING; SPEECH DISORDER;

EID: 0032403860     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1998.2018     Document Type: Article

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