Juhn Atsushi Wada
Affiliations: | University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
Area:
epilespy; Wada test; kindling; hemispheric asymmetryGoogle:
"Juhn Wada"Bio:
Juhn Atsushi Wada was born in Tokyo in 1924 and studied medicine at the Hokkaido Imperial University in Sapporo, where his father was professor of international law. He graduated in medicine in 1946 and became Doctor of Science in 1951. He then spent time at the University of Minnesota and the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, before being appointed to the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia in 1956. From then until 1998, Wada spent his academic career at the UBC. From 1966 to 1994 he was an associate of the Medical Research Council of Canada. Wada's main interest as a neurologist has been researching Human Brain Asymmetry and Neurobiology of Epilepsy.
Juhn Atsushi Wada has been the recipient of many internationally renowned awards.
Mean distance: 14 (cluster 17) | S | N | B | C | P |
Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Wilder Penfield | post-doc | 1951-1955 | Montreal Neurological Institute | |
| (years are tentative - Dr. Wada was a fellow at the MNI, where he introduced the Intracarotid Amobarbital Procedure.) | ||||
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Michael Corcoran | post-doc | UBC | |
| Donald Peter Cain | post-doc | 1974-1976 | UBC |
Publications
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| Wada JA. (2009) Canadian league against epilepsy : A brief history Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. 36: S3-S6 |
| Wada JA. (2005) Callosal bisection and transcallosal secondary antiepileptogenesis. Epilepsia. 46: 2-6 |
| Wada JA, Hirayasu Y. (2004) Lasting secondary antiepileptogenesis induced by cingulate kindling. Epilepsia. 45: 1308-16 |
| Wada JA. (2001) Predisposed susceptibility and partial seizure disorder. Epilepsia. 42: 2 |
| Wada JA. (2001) Epilepsy as a progressive (or nonprogressive "benign") disorder. International Review of Neurobiology. 45: 481-504 |
| Wada JA, Hamada K. (1999) Role of the midline brainstem in feline amygdaloid kindling. Epilepsia. 40: 669-76 |
| Hamada K, Wada JA. (1998) Amygdaloid kindling in brainstem bisected cats. Epilepsy Research. 29: 87-95 |
| Wada JA, Tsuchimochi H. (1997) Role of the claustrum in convulsive evolution of visual afferent and partial nonconvulsive seizure in primates. Epilepsia. 38: 897-906 |
| Strauss E, Hunter M, Hermann BP, et al. (1997) Differential rates of age of seizure onset between sexes and between hemispheres? Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : Jins. 3: 428-34 |
| Wada JA, Kudo T. (1997) Involvement of the claustrum in the convulsive evolution of temporal limbic seizure in feline amygdaloid kindling. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 103: 249-56 |