Intraoperative Mapping of Cognitive Networks

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.

Table of contents:

Cover

Front Matter

Part I. Sensorimotor and Visuo-Spatial Functions

1. Motor Control

2. Vision

3. Frontal Eye Fields

4. Spatial Cognition

Part II. Language Functions

5. Lexical Retrieval

6. Spontaneous Speech

7. Reading

8. Handwriting

9. Repeating

10. Syntax

11. Naming: Nouns and Verbs

12. Verbal Short-Term Memory

13. Proper Names Retrieval

14. Multilingual Naming

Part III. Higher-Order Functions

15. Semantic Cognition

16. Inhibition

17. Set Shifting

18. Social Cognition

19. Multiple Tasks

Part IV. Prospects

20. Creativity

21. Raising the Question of Personality Changes in Glioma Surgery

22. Patients with Barriers of Communication

23. Inner Speech Brain Mapping. Is It Possible to Map What We Cannot Observe?

24. Beyond Task: When Experience Shapes Intuition