Non-invasive alternatives to the Wada test in the presurgical evaluation of language and memory functions in epilepsy patients

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 111-126

  Pelletier, Isabelle ^a,b   Sauerwein, Hannelore C ^a,b   Lepore, Franco ^a,b   Saint Amour, Dave ^a,c   Lassonde, Maryse ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Intracarotid amobarbital test; Language; Memory; Neuroimaging technique

Indexed keywords

DICHOTIC LISTENING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEMORY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TACHISTOSCOPY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WADA TEST;

AMOBARBITAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 34347337397     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2007.0109     Document Type: Review

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