Improving brain health by identifying structure-function relations in patients with neurosurgical disorders

Liwei Zhang; Deling Li; Dan Xiao; William T Couldwell; Kenji Ohata

doi:10.1136/bmj.m3690

Improving brain health by identifying structure-function relations in patients with neurosurgical disorders

BMJ. 2020 Oct 9:371:m3690. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m3690.

Authors

Liwei Zhang^{1

2

3

4}, Deling Li^{1

2

3

4}, Dan Xiao^{1

2}, William T Couldwell⁵, Kenji Ohata⁶

Affiliations

¹ Neurosurgery Department, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Fengtai District, Beijing, China.
² China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, Fengtai District, Beijing, China.
³ Beijing Key Laboratory of Brain Tumor, Fengtai District, Beijing, China.
⁴ International Translational Molecular Imaging Center for Brain Tumor, Fengtai District, Beijing, China.
⁵ Neurosurgery Department, Clinical Neurosciences Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
⁶ Neurosurgery Department, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan.

Abstract

Use of new technology to map which parts of the brain control different functions is leading to better treatment of patients with neurosurgical disorders, say Liwei Zhang and colleagues

MeSH terms

Brain / pathology
Brain / physiopathology
Brain / surgery*
Brain Diseases / pathology*
Brain Diseases / physiopathology*
Brain Diseases / surgery
Humans
Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring / methods
Neurosurgical Procedures / methods*