A neurosurgical functional dissection of the middle precentral gyrus during speech production

AB Silva, JR Liu, L Zhao, DF Levy, TL Scott… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Classical models have traditionally focused on the left posterior inferior frontal gyrus (Broca's
area) as a key region for motor planning of speech production. However, converging …

Contemporary model of language organization: an overview for neurosurgeons

EF Chang, KP Raygor, MS Berger - Journal of neurosurgery, 2015 - thejns.org
Classic models of language organization posited that separate motor and sensory language
foci existed in the inferior frontal gyrus (Broca's area) and superior temporal gyrus …

Stimulation mapping of white matter tracts to study brain functional connectivity

H Duffau - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2015 - nature.com
Despite advances in the new science of connectomics, which aims to comprehensively map
neural connections at both structural and functional levels, techniques to directly study the …

Comparison of a strategy favoring early surgical resection vs a strategy favoring watchful waiting in low-grade gliomas

AS Jakola, KS Myrmel, R Kloster, SH Torp, S Lindal… - Jama, 2012 - jamanetwork.com
Context There are no controlled studies on surgical treatment of diffuse low-grade gliomas
(LGGs), and management is controversial. Objective To examine survival in population …

The neural architecture of the language comprehension network: converging evidence from lesion and connectivity analyses

AU Turken, NF Dronkers - Frontiers in System Neuroscience, 2011 - frontiersin.org
While traditional models of language comprehension have focused on the left posterior
temporal cortex as the neurological basis for language comprehension, lesion and …

A re-examination of neural basis of language processing: proposal of a dynamic hodotopical model from data provided by brain stimulation mapping during picture …

H Duffau, S Moritz-Gasser, E Mandonnet - Brain and language, 2014 - Elsevier
From recent findings provided by brain stimulation mapping during picture naming, we re-
examine the neural basis of language. We studied structural–functional relationships by …

New concepts in the management of diffuse low-grade glioma: proposal of a multistage and individualized therapeutic approach

H Duffau, L Taillandier - Neuro-oncology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Diffuse low-grade glioma grows, migrates along white matter tracts, and progresses to high-
grade glioma. Rather than a “wait and see” policy, an aggressive attitude is now …

The huge plastic potential of adult brain and the role of connectomics: new insights provided by serial mappings in glioma surgery

H Duffau - Cortex, 2014 - Elsevier
While prominent in the traditional literature, the localizationist and static view of brain
processing does not explain numerous observations of functional recovery following …

Anatomic dissection of the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus revisited in the lights of brain stimulation data

J Martino, C Brogna, SG Robles, F Vergani, H Duffau - cortex, 2010 - Elsevier
Despite electrostimulation studies of the white matter pathways, supporting the role of the
inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF) in semantic processing, little is known about the …

Awake surgery for WHO Grade II gliomas within “noneloquent” areas in the left dominant hemisphere: toward a “supratotal” resection

YN Yordanova, S Moritz-Gasser, H Duffau - Journal of neurosurgery, 2011 - thejns.org
Object It has been demonstrated that an extensive resection (total or subtotal) may
significantly increase the overall survival in patients with WHO Grade II gliomas (low-grade …