SynthesisActa neurochirurgica2024
An update on tests used for intraoperative monitoring of cognition during awake craniotomy.
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- Efficacy and safety of anesthetic agents in awake craniotomy using monitored anesthesia care protocol: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Neurosurgical review · 2025Pooled it
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- Digital MULTIMAP: a standardization of objects and actions naming task in a french population.Acta neurochirurgica · 2026Article
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- The Modulatory Effects of Anesthetics and Analgesics on Neurophysiological Monitoring and Underlying Mechanisms.Current neuropharmacology · 2026Review
- Separating the forest from the palm trees: Individual variation in a presurgical language mapping task.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2026Article
- A movie in the operating theater: Guided story narration as a pragmatic language screening tool during awake craniotomy.Clinical neurophysiology practice · 2026Article
- Preoperative nTMS-based mapping of a verbal semantic association task allows for the identification of extensive bihemispheric cortical and subcortical networks.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2025Observational
- Advances in Preoperative and Intraoperative Technologies for Safe Resection of Gliomas in Cognitive Regions.Cancers · 2025Review
- Single pulse electrical stimulation of the medial thalamic surface induces narrower high gamma band activities in the sensorimotor cortex.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Practical guidance for monitored anesthesia care during awake craniotomy.Anesthesia and pain medicine · 2025Review
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- Mapping glioma's impact on cognition: Insights from macrostructure, microstructure, and beyond.Neuro-oncology advancesArticle
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Abstract
purposeMapping higher-order cognitive functions during awake brain surgery is important for cognitive preservation which is related to postoperative quality of life. A systematic review from 2018 about neuropsychological tests used during awake craniotomy made clear that until 2017 language was most often monitored and that the other cognitive domains were underexposed (Ruis, J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 40(10):1081-1104, 218). The field of awake craniotomy and cognitive monitoring is however developing rapidly. The aim of the current review is therefore, to investigate whether there is a change in the field towards incorporation of new tests and more complete mapping of (higher-order) cognitive functions.
methodsWe replicated the systematic search of the study from 2018 in PubMed and Embase from February 2017 to November 2023, yielding 5130 potentially relevant articles. We used the artificial machine learning tool ASReview for screening and included 272 papers that gave a detailed description of the neuropsychological tests used during awake craniotomy.
resultsComparable to the previous study of 2018, the majority of studies (90.4%) reported tests for assessing language functions (Ruis, J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 40(10):1081-1104, 218). Nevertheless, an increasing number of studies now also describe tests for monitoring visuospatial functions, social cognition, and executive functions.
conclusionsLanguage remains the most extensively tested cognitive domain. However, a broader range of tests are now implemented during awake craniotomy and there are (new developed) tests which received more attention. The rapid development in the field is reflected in the included studies in this review. Nevertheless, for some cognitive domains (e.g., executive functions and memory), there is still a need for developing tests that can be used during awake surgery.
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