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Years ago,
patient
s who underwent a bilateral medial temporal
lobectomy
were found to have developed
anterograde amnesia
.
Surgeon
s now only remove one
lobe
if necessary, since the loss of one will still allow nearly normal
memory
function. However, it was still sometimes found that the removal of only one of the medial
temporal lobe
s caused anterograde
amnesia
.
Autopsies
later revealed that such people had already experienced damage to the other hemisphere of the
hippocampal system
. The
Wada
test is designed to prevent such a
surgical mistake
. The procedure is as follows. The hemisphere that is to be operated on is administered with an
anaesthetic
(injected into the
carotid artery
). If the patients can still succeed in memory and
learning
tasks, then the conclusion is that they must have a functioning hippocampal system in the opposite hemisphere of the
brain
. Therefore, surgery can proceed.
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