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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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Introduction

Olivia Leo is the Executive Director of the Rotary Club of Nashville. She had a brain tumour discovered that was located in the left posterior temporal region. This called for presurgical language mapping with functional MRI. Olivia's surgeon, Dr. Reed Thompson, decided to perform an awake craniotomy and asked her to speak during it. He carefully resected the tumour from within and succeeded in entirely preserving Olivia's speech and language function as you're about to hear.

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