Purpose: To estimate the value of neuropsychological measurements in determining the
side of seizure onset for presurgical assessment in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. The …

The intracarotid amobarbital procedure (IAP) has been used for more than half a century to
determine language dominance and to assess risk for amnesia after anterior temporal …

Purpose: To determine which patients with evidence of medically refractory bitemporal
epilepsy are potentially good candidates for surgical therapy. Methods: We reviewed 42 …

Functional MRI (fMRI) studies of memory with coarse resolution of 4× 4× 5mm often fail to
demonstrate blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) activation in the hippocampal …

Assessment of a child with epilepsy involves a number of key stages, the most crucial being
clinical evaluation where the presence of seizure activity and seizure type is identified …

Object In this paper the authors' goal was to identify preoperative variables that predict long-
term seizure freedom among patients with mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS) after single …

Purpose: Differences in Wada memory performance after left and right amobarbital injection
are powerful predictors of pre‐to postoperative memory change among adult epilepsy …

Epilepsy surgery has been established as an effective treatment in pharmacoresistant focal
epilepsies. Most candidates for epilepsy surgery are patients with partial epilepsy …

THE IAP, OR WADA test, was originally de-signed as a method to allow unilateral
electroconvulsive shock therapy for psychosis. The method soon proved valuable as a tool …

Purpose: To measure the interrater reliability of presurgical testing and surgical decisions
among epilepsy centers. Methods: Seven centers participating in an ongoing, prospective …