Wada Test (Intracarotid Brevital Procedure) ?!

[MrJiggles]

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I was in a procedure today in the IR suite with a neuropsychologist, where the interventional neuroradiologist injected brevital through a femoral cath into a woman's internal carotid to "stun" neural activity in the respective hemisphere, upon which the neuropsychologist did a battery of cognitive tests.

Is there any aspect of this that would involve a neuropsychiatrist? I interviewed at programs that had DBS programs for various ailments, but I havn't heard of many "interventional" things in psych other than this. What other spacey weird things are there?

 

[nitemagi]

Amytal interviews for suspected conversion disorder.

In the future probably ketamine infusions for refractory depression.

In hospice care we used to use thorazine via subcutaneous pumps for terminal delirium pt's.