Full Description
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.
Contents
Foreword.- Preface.- Part I: Sensorimotor and visuo-spatial functions.- 1. Motor control.- 2. Vision.- 3. FEF.- 4. Spatial cognition.- Part II: Language functions.- 5. Lexical access.- 6. Spontaneous speech.- 7. Reading.- 8. Writing.- 9. Repeating.- 10. Syntactic abilities.- 11. Verbs versus nouns naming.- 12. Verbal short-term memory.- 13. Proper names retrieval.- 14. Bilingual patients.- Part III: Higher-order functions.- 15. From verbal to non-verbal semantics.- 16. Inhibition.- 17. Set-shifting.- 18. Social cognition.- 19. Multitask mapping.- Part IV: Prospects.- 20. Creativity.- 21. Psychiatric and behavorial traits.- 22. Awake surgery in patients with poor abilities of verbal communication.- 23. Can we map inner speech?.- 24. Beyond tasks: when experience shapes intuition.
