"Non-Eloquent" brain regions predict neuropsychological outcome in tumor patients undergoing awake craniotomy.
Supratotal resection of primary brain tumors is being advocated especially when involving "non-eloquent" tissue.However, there is extensive neuropsychological data implicating functions critical to higher cognition in areas considered "non-eloquent" by most surgeons.The goal of the study was to determine pre-surgical brain regions that would be pre