Items Tagged ‘hippocampus’
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Brain Mapping to Protect Language during Surgery
Language mapping is often used to protect language functions during surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy or brain tumors. Language mapping is done during surgery while the patient is awake and interactive. This is possible because the brain itself does not have pain receptors. The patient is...
Posted on Oct 11, 2010 by Department Author In Blog, Brain Tumor Blog, Doctors, Epilepsy Blog, General Neurosurgery, Movement Disorders Blog
