The language used in operating rooms isn’t always as precise as it should be and contains ambiguities that researchers want to clear up, according to a new study. “Surgery is too precise to use ...

A 17-year-old boy in the Netherlands temporarily lost the ability to speak his native Dutch after waking from knee surgery, ...

Northwestern Medicine researchers have mapped critical brain areas for language by analyzing electrical signals from patients during surgery. The study identifies key “connector” sites that help ...

Neurosurgeons from the University of California, San Francisco are reporting significant results of a new brain mapping technique that allows for the safe removal of tumors near language pathways in ...

July 2, 2010 (Rhodes, Greece) — Preoperative functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may identify which patients are more likely to experience language deficits after brain surgery for ...

The symptoms: The teenager was admitted to a hospital in the Netherlands for knee surgery after getting injured while playing soccer. The surgery was successful, but when the patient woke up from the ...

Compared with standard intensive speech and language therapy (iSLT) alone, right-sided cervical C7 neurotomy combined with iSLT significantly improved language function in patients with chronic ...

A preoperative procedure might enable surgeons to protect the language centers during brain tumor removal without needing to keep patients awake during surgery. A technique that maps a patient's ...

Neurosurgeons from the University of California, San Francisco are reporting significant results of a new brain mapping technique that allows for the safe removal of tumors near language pathways in ...