The Language Neuroscience Podcast

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

Aug 23, 2022

57:01

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Aphasia Surgery

03:21

Do You Remember the Tasks We Do in the Scanner?

03:01

Can She Come Back? Yeah, I Can't Survive That.

04:29

Introduction

2min

How Did You Start a Fun Through Vanderbilt?

2min

What Is Tunnel Vision?

2min

I've Had Thyroid Cancer in 2015 and I'm Going to Die Today.

2min

What Was the Bad News?

3min

I've Got a Low Grade Glioma. Is It a Lumbar Puncture?

2min

What's the Worst News?

3min

Is Olivia Pointing to Her Left Posterior Temporal Lobe?

4min

Did You Cancel That MRI?

2min

10.

Do You Remember the Tasks We Do in the Scanner?

3min

11.

Do You Have Good Vision?

2min

12.

Is There a Long Term Loss of Speech?

3min

13.

What Do You Listen to During a Weight Craniotomy?

1min

14.

The Lumineers - What John Prine Song Would You Listen To?

2min

15.

I've Had a Colonoscopy and I'm Not 100% Out, Right?

3min

16.

I Can't Believe That I'm Able to Say This

2min

17.

Can She Come Back? Yeah, I Can't Survive That.

4min

18.

Are You Comfortable With MRIs These Days?

3min

19.

You're Doing Well. Can You Tell Me More?

2min

20.

Brain Cancer Patients Assistance Fund

2min

21.

Cancer and the Copays

4min

22.

Aphasia Surgery

3min

In this episode, I talk with Olivia Leow, who experienced an awake craniotomy for resection of a brain tumor surrounded by language areas in her left posterior temporal lobe.

Vanderbilt Brain Cancer Patient Assistance Fund, established by Olivia Leow

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Wilson SM, Lam D, Babiak M, Perry D, Shih T, Hess CP, Berger MS, Chang EF. Transient aphasias after left hemisphere resective surgery. J Neurosurg 2015; 123: 581-93. [doi]

McCarron A, Chavez A, Babiak MC, Berger MS, Chang EF, Wilson SM. Connected speech in transient aphasias after left hemisphere resective surgery. Aphasiology 2017; 31: 1266-81. [doi]

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