Awake surgery between art and science. Part II: Language and cognitive mapping

Functional Neurology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 223-239

  Talacchi, Andrea ^a   Santini, Barbara ^a   Casartelli, Marilena ^b   Monti, Alessia ^c   Capasso, Rita ^c   Miceli, Gabriele ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive tasks; Eloquent areas; Language mapping; Subcortical tracts

Indexed keywords

ARCUATE FASCICULUS; AWAKE BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SURGERY; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EPILEPSY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLIOMA; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MULTILINGUALISM; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; READING; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUBCORTICAL MAPPING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRACTOGRAPHY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; WORKING MEMORY; WRITING; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WAKEFULNESS;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84886875087     PISSN: 03935264     EISSN: 19713274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11138/FNeur/2013.28.3.223     Document Type: Review

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