Methods for determination of language dominance: The wada test and proposed noninvasive alternatives

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 483-490

  Abou Khalil, Bassel ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; ANESTHETIC AGENT; OXYGEN; OXYGEN 15;

BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DYSARTHRIA; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GOLD STANDARD; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WADA TEST;

AMOBARBITAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPEECH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 36048985334     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-007-0075-6     Document Type: Review

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