- Comprehensive state-of the-art of intraoperative brain functions testing
- Common approach for all chapters
- Each chapter is written in tandem by a neurosurgeon and a neuropsychologist
This book aims to give the state-of-the-art of intraoperative brain function mapping for resection of brain tumors in awake conditions, and to become a reference for acquiring the fundamental expertise necessary to select the right intraoperative task at the right time of the surgery.
The chapters, all focused on a specific brain function, are divided in 4 parts: sensori-motor and visuo-spatial functions, language functions, higher-order functions, and prospects. Each chapter follows the same outline, including a brief review of the current knowledge about the networks sustaining the function in healthy subjects, the description of the intraoperative tasks designed to monitor the function, a review of the literature describing the deficits in that function after surgery, and a critical appraisal of the benefit provided by intraoperative mapping of that function.
Table of Contents- Vision
- Frontal Eye Fields
- Spatial Cognition
- Lexical Retrieval
- Spontaneous Speech
- Reading
- Handwriting
- Repeating
- Syntax
- Naming: Nouns and Verbs
- Verbal Short-Term Memory
- Proper Names Retrieval
- Multilingual Naming
- Semantic Cognition
- Inhibition
- Set Shifting
- Social Cognition
- Multiple Tasks
- Creativity
- Raising the Question of Personality Changes in Glioma Surgery
- Patients with Barriers of Communication
- Inner Speech Brain Mapping. Is It Possible to Map What We Cannot Observe?
- Beyond Task: When Experience Shapes Intuition
