Brain imaging in the assessment for epilepsy surgery

JS Duncan, GP Winston, MJ Koepp… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Brain imaging has a crucial role in the presurgical assessment of patients with epilepsy.
Structural imaging reveals most cerebral lesions underlying focal epilepsy. Advances in MRI …

Monitoring cognition during awake brain surgery in adults: a systematic review

C Ruis - Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Historically, most studies about awake brain surgery have focused on language
or motor functions. More recently, other cognitive functions have also been assessed …

Accuracy and precision of navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation

AE Nieminen, JO Nieminen, M Stenroos… - Journal of neural …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) induces an electric field (E-field) in the
cortex. To facilitate stimulation targeting, image-guided neuronavigation systems have been …

Electrical stimulation map** of the brain: basic principles and emerging alternatives

AL Ritaccio, P Brunner, G Schalk - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
The application of electrical stimulation map** (ESM) of the brain for clinical use is
approximating a century. Despite this long-standing history, the value of ESM for guiding …

The value of preoperative functional cortical map** using navigated TMS

JP Lefaucheur, T Picht - Neurophysiologie Clinique/Clinical …, 2016 - Elsevier
The surgical removal of brain tumours in so-called eloquent regions is frequently associated
with a high risk of causing disabling postoperative deficits. Among the preoperative …

Comparing navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation map** and “gold standard” direct cortical stimulation map** in neurosurgery: a systematic review

HR Jeltema, AK Ohlerth, A de Wit, M Wagemakers… - Neurosurgical …, 2021 - Springer
The objective of this systematic review is to create an overview of the literature on the
comparison of navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) as a map** tool to the …

[HTML][HTML] Electric fields induced in the brain by transcranial electric stimulation: A review of in vivo recordings

M Guidetti, M Arlotti, T Bocci, AM Bianchi, M Parazzini… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) techniques, such as direct current stimulation (tDCS)
and transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), cause neurophysiological and …

Setup presentation and clinical outcome analysis of treating highly language-eloquent gliomas via preoperative navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation and …

N Sollmann, A Kelm, S Ille, A Schröder, C Zimmer… - Neurosurgical …, 2018 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Awake surgery combined with intraoperative direct electrical stimulation (DES)
and intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) is considered the gold standard for the resection …

Surgery of language-eloquent tumors in patients not eligible for awake surgery: the impact of a protocol based on navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation on …

G Raffa, MC Quattropani, A Scibilia, A Conti… - Clinical neurology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives Awake surgery and intraoperative monitoring represent the gold standard for
surgery of brain tumors located in the perisylvian region of the dominant hemisphere due to …

Accuracy of presurgical functional MR imaging for language map** of brain tumors: a systematic review and meta-analysis

HH Weng, KR Noll, JM Johnson, SS Prabhu, YH Tsai… - Radiology, 2018 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To compare functional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging for language map**
(hereafter, language functional MR imaging) with direct cortical stimulation (DCS) in patients …