Bizarre behavior during intracarotid sodium amytal testing (Wada Test): Are they predictable?

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 62, Issue 2 B, 2004, Pages 444-448

  De Paola, Luciano ^a   Mäder, Maria Joana ^a   Germiniani, Francisco M B ^a   Coral, Patrícia ^a   Zavala, Jorge A A ^a   Watzo, Djon J ^a   Kanegusuku, Jorge ^a   Silvado, Carlos E S ^a,b   Werneck, Lineu C ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b Neurologia ^*

Author keywords

Refractory epilepsy; Sodium amytal; Wada test

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTRACAROTID SODIUM AMYTAL TEST; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOOD DISORDER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 3142670055     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2004000300012     Document Type: Article

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