Longitudinal assessment of network reorganizations and language recovery in postoperative patients with glioma.

ABSTRACT: For patients with glioma located in or adjacent to the linguistic eloquent cortex, awake surgery with an emphasis on the preservation of language function is preferred. However, the brain network basis of postoperative linguistic functional outcomes remains largely unknown. In this work, 34 patients with left cerebral gliomas who underwent awake surgery were assessed for language function and resting-state network properties before and after surgery. We found that there were 28 patients whose language function returned to at least 80% of the baseline scores within 3 months after surgery or to 85% within 6 months after surgery. For these patients, the spontaneous recovery of language function synchronized with changes within the language and cognitive control networks, but not with other ne

SUBMITTER: Yuan B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8994117 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature