Non-organic language deficits following awake brain surgery: a case report

Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2015 Mar:130:11-3. doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2014.12.012. Epub 2014 Dec 29.

Authors

E De Witte¹, P Mariën²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Clinical and Experimental Neurolinguistics, Center for Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, Belgium.
² Center for Clinical and Experimental Neurolinguistics, Center for Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Neurology and Memory Clinic, ZNA Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium. Electronic address: peter.marien5@telenet.be.

PMID: 25574862
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2014.12.012

No abstract available

Keywords: Awake surgery; Case report; Conversion; Non-organic; Psychogenic aphasia.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Brain / surgery*
Brain Mapping*
Humans
Language*
Male
Postoperative Complications / prevention & control*
Wakefulness / physiology*