ArticleAnnals of neurology2017
Language functional MRI and direct cortical stimulation in epilepsy preoperative planning.
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- Roles of fMRI and Wada tests in the presurgical evaluation of language functions in temporal lobe epilepsy.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Pooled it
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- Consensus recommendations for clinical functional MRI applied to language mapping.Aperture neuro · 2025Article
- Design and methodology for a proof of mechanism study of individualized neuronavigated continuous Theta burst stimulation for auditory processing in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Current State of Functional MRI in the Presurgical Planning of Brain Tumors.Radiology. Imaging cancer · 2023Review
- A systematic review of neuroimaging approaches to mapping language in individuals.Journal of neurolinguistics · 2023Article
- Neurological update: structural and functional imaging in epilepsy surgery.Journal of neurology · 2023Review
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- Discrepant expressive language lateralization in children and adolescents with epilepsy.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2022Article
- Resting-State Functional MRI for Determining Language Lateralization in Children with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2021Article
- Automatic identification of atypical clinical fMRI results.Neuroradiology · 2020Article
- Novel Deep Learning Network Analysis of Electrical Stimulation Mapping-Driven Diffusion MRI Tractography to Improve Preoperative Evaluation of Pediatric Epilepsy.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2020Article
- Functional MRI study of language organization in left-handed and right-handed trilingual subjects.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Language lateralization from task-based and resting state functional MRI in patients with epilepsy.Human brain mapping · 2020Article
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objectivePresurgical language assessment can help minimize damage to eloquent cortex during resective epilepsy surgery. Two methods for presurgical language mapping are functional MRI (fMRI) and direct cortical stimulation (DCS) of implanted subdural electrodes. We compared fMRI results to DCS to help optimize noninvasive language localization and assess its validity.
methodsWe studied 19 patients referred for presurgical evaluation of drug-resistant epilepsy. Patients completed four language tasks during preoperative fMRI. After subdural electrode implantation, we used DCS to localize language areas. For each stimulation site, we determined whether language positive electrode pairs intersected with significant fMRI activity clusters for language tasks.
resultsSensitivity and specificity depended on electrode region of interest radii and statistical thresholding. For patients with at least one language positive stimulation site, an auditory description decision task provided the best trade-off between sensitivity and specificity. For patients with no language positive stimulation sites, fMRI was a dependable method of excluding eloquent language processing.
interpretationLanguage fMRI is an effective tool for determining language lateralization before electrode implantation and is especially useful for excluding unexpected critical language areas. It can help guide subdural electrode implantation and narrow the search for eloquent cortical areas by DCS. Ann Neurol 2017;81:526-537.
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