Is There a Broca's Area in the Brain?

In these neurosurgical procedures, they'll do is basically freeze half the brain. And then at the same time in the OR, you'll have a neuropsychologist on hand who will do a bunch of language tests to make sure speech production or comprehension is not lost. You can actually do brain neurosurgical techniques with a patient being semi-conscious,. So you don't have to do a general anesthesia.