Contributions of functional neuroimaging to presurgical brain mapping

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Event Abstract Back to Event Contributions of functional neuroimaging to presurgical brain mapping Andrew C. Papanicolaou1* 1 The University of Tennessee, College of Medicine, United States The main clinical application of functional neuroimaging consists in mapping the brain areas that contain parts of the neuronal circuitry necessary for somatosensory, motor, and language functions and in assessing hemispheric dominance for language and for the encoding operations of memory prior to several types of brain surgery. Presently, functional neuroimaging is used in conjunction with the classical, invasive methods of brain mapping, that is, direct cortical stimulation and the “Wada” procedure. The rationale for the use of the non-invasive methods of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) will be presented and the conditions for replacing the invasive presurgical brain mapping methods with them will be described. The main reasons for contemplating such replacement, namely the limitations inherent in invasive methods and evidence that renders them unjustifiable as “gold standards” will be discussed and additional evidence will be presented that the efficacy of the two types of methods in reducing morbidity, facilitating surgical planning, and enhancing surgical outcome is comparable. Keywords: Neuroimaging, Brain Mapping, Brain Surgery, fMRI, MEG and EEG, TMS/tDCS Conference: SAN2016 Meeting, Corfu, Greece, 6 Oct - 9 Oct, 2016. Presentation Type: Oral Presentation in SAN 2016 Conference Topic: Oral Presentations Citation: Papanicolaou AC (2016). Contributions of functional neuroimaging to presurgical brain mapping. Conference Abstract: SAN2016 Meeting. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2016.220.00124 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 06 Sep 2016; Published Online: 06 Sep 2016. * Correspondence: Prof. Andrew C Papanicolaou, The University of Tennessee, College of Medicine, Tennessee, United States, apapanic@uthsc.edu Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Andrew C Papanicolaou Google Andrew C Papanicolaou Google Scholar Andrew C Papanicolaou PubMed Andrew C Papanicolaou Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.