Awake craniotomy for a brain tumor surrounded by language areas, with Olivia Leow
The Language Neuroscience Podcast
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Is Olivia Pointing to Her Left Posterior Temporal Lobe?
"This is a pretty rough few weeks. Of learning a lot of things and getting acclimated into this world of neurosurgery," she says. "I was at, I didn't know much about it at all... Maybe I've watched Grey's Anatomy a few times or something." She meets with Dr. Reed Thompson to get an MRI that will map her communication functions in the brain. The procedure can cost up to $20,000 per person.
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