University of Groningen - Language Testing During Awake Brain Surgery 

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Neuroanatomy of language

Language and what can go wrong

Wrapping up Week 1

Exploring the preoperative phase

Assessing tumour types

Eligibility for surgery

Making the decision

Wrapping up Week 2

The hours before the surgery

The first asleep phase

Intraoperative mapping and decision making

The second asleep phase and its pitfalls

Wrapping up Week 3

Clinical linguists in the OR

The complex language map in the brain

Spontaneous speech testing

Developing tailor-made language tests

Wrapping up Week 4 with designing our own tests

The variety of tests

How to select tests

Evaluating the outcome

Applying our tests

Wrapping up the test developments

The alternative to intraoperative mapping

Beyond language mapping

Wrapping up our course