Hippocampus

[Stephen Black]

On 21 Oct 1996, Leochner wrote:
> <snip>
> I consider what I have been through to be facinating!!  I've been able to
> have the lovely WADA test. MRI lots and lots and lots of times, EEG
> stimulation...<snip>

Why "the lovely WADA test"? Does the injection produce a high? And if so, 
does it vary with the hemisphere which has been anesthetized? Or was this 
a sarcastic reference to discomfort associated with the test?

BTW, WADA is not an acronym like EEG and MRI, it's an eponym. J. Wada was 
the researcher who developed it with T. Rasmussen.

Wada, J. & Rasmussen, T. (1960). Intracarotid injection of sodium Amytal for
  the lateralization of cerebral speech dominance. Journal of 
  neurosurgery, 17, 266-282.

-Stephen
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