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Awake craniotomy is increasingly used to resect intrinsic brain tumors while preserving language. The level of musical training might affect the speed and extend of postoperative language recovery, as increased white matter connectivity in the corpus callosum is described in musicians compared to non-musicians.
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... linear correlation was visually observed, but not statistically confirmed, between volume of corpus callosum and postoperative language course (T1 vs. T3, t = 0.79, df = 22, p-value = 0.43) and between the total hours of playing and corpus callosum volume (t = 1.57, df = 18, p-value = 0.13, Figure 3). ...
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... In particular, intraoperative findings were found to have prognostic value for the level or presence of postoperative aphasia. For instance, intraoperative language decline observed with The Pyramids and Palm Tree Test (PPTT) appeared to be a marker for improved postoperative (Kappen et al., 2022b)language performance (Chang et al., 2018) underlining the application of a semantic task intraoperatively. A recent systematic review on intraoperative language errors and outcome measures reported that the occurrence of anomia and speech initiation problems were significant predictors for postoperative acute language impairments in the context of production and spontaneous speech deficits (Collée et al., 2022) stressing the need for the administration of at least an object naming task and the monitoring of spontaneous speech during awake surgery (see section 4.3 Supplementary Motor Area syndrome for more details). ...
... Another small patient study by the same research group found that musicality contributes to language recovery after awake surgery underlining its relevance (Kappen et al., 2022b). In combination with advances in tractography, a new anatomy of language has emerged over the past three decades ( Figure 5). ...
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