PSYC 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Temporal Database, Temporal Lobe, Middle Temporal Gyrus
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Such findings are suggestive of bilateral interference in the temporal area: verbal memory deficits, and non-verbal difficulties. Uggesti(cid:374)g that it"s possi(cid:271)le the(cid:396)e is s(cid:373)t (cid:449)(cid:396)o(cid:374)g o(cid:374) (cid:271)oth sides. Surgeon want to remove mesial temporal structures on one side; determine that the side of the brain that will not be resected can sustain enough memory functions. Intracorotid anaesthetic procedure (esam procedure: etomidate (drug)(anaesthetic) speech and memory test. Diff sodium amatol and etomidate: sodium amatol. As injecting amatol you get few minutes of full anesthesia= time to run the test. Very quickly the blood is washing the drug out of the system. Pharmacological company stopped making the drug in 2002: etomidate. Once in the blood system of hemisphere. Can keep the drug in the system until you finish your testing: procedural difference. Small non sequitur: a few words about speech representation in the brain.
