Emotional outbursts and post-traumatic stress disorder during intracarotid amobarbital procedure

Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1691-1693

  Masia, S L ^a   Perrine, K ^a   Westbrook, L ^a   Alper, K ^a   Devinsky, Orrin ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Epilepsy; Post traumatic stress disorder; Valence hypothesis; Wada procedure

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; DIAZEPAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COUNSELING; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MEMORY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SEIZURE;

EID: 0034050425     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.54.8.1691     Document Type: Article

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