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Awake craniotomy for a brain tumor surrounded by language areas, with Olivia Leow

The Language Neuroscience Podcast

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Is There a Long Term Loss of Speech?

"It's actually really common. That even if things are going to be fine in the long run, that the days immediately after one of these surgeries, people do have aphasia," she says. "I had plans for, you know, talk to my husband and mom and dad about if I wake up and I'm not able to communicate or if my speech is really slurred."

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