Main 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 control2 Vision3 FEF4 Spatial cognition
Part II Language functions
5 Lexical access6 Spontaneous speech7 Reading8 Writing9 Repeating10 Syntactic abilities11 Verbs versus nouns naming12 Verbal short-term memory13 Proprer names retrieval14 Bilingual patients
Part III Higher-order functions
15 From verbal to non-verbal semantics16 Inhibition17 Set-shifting18 Social cognition19 Multitask mapping
Part IV Prospects
20 Creativity21 Psychiatric and behavorial traits22 Awake surgery in patients with poor abilities of verbal communication23 Can we map inner speech? 24 Beyond tasks: when experience shapes intuition