Objective: To review the literature and identify alternatives to sodium amobarbital for use in
the Wada test. Data Sources: A search of PubMed (1960-October 2010) was performed …

Speech and language-related functions tend to depend on the left hemisphere more than
the right in most right-handed (dextral) participants. This relationship is less clear in non …

Patients with medically refractory epilepsy when referred for surgical treatment often
undergo extensive investigations to determine whether surgical treatment is feasible …

OBJECTIVE Providing a reliable assessment of language lateralization is an important task
to be performed prior to neurosurgery in patients with epilepsy. Over the last decade …

INTRODUCTION: Methohexital has replaced amobarbital during Wada testing at many
centers. The objective of our study was to compare the use of methohexital and amobarbital …

Hemispheric language dominance and isolated hemispheric memory function evaluation
can be undertaken with the intracarotid injection of a general anesthetic agent (Wada test) …

Background: The Wada procedure (the intracarotid amobarbital procedure) has been used
widely to evaluate the hemispheric dominance of language and memory before temporal …

A middle-aged patient underwent staged endovascular embolization of a Spetzler-Martin
grade V right parietal arteriovenous malformation (AVM). In the fifth endovascular …

To investigate the usefulness of pentobarbital (PTB) in the Wada test, 32 patients injected
with PTB and 28 patients injected with amobarbital (AMB) were retrospectively analyzed …

Pharmacologic provocative testing (PT) and intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring
(IONM) both mitigate and predict risks associated with endovascular embolization …