Many critical functional brain regions are difficult to identify by anatomy alone, especially when gross distortion is present secondary to brain lesions. In this article, Fisicaro et al from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center demonstrate the difficulty of using anatomy alone to identify the foot motor region in patients with brain tumors.
A new article in Human Brain Mapping by Benjamin CF et al, Presurgical language fMRI: Mapping of six critical regions investigates how best to identify critical language related brain regions from cli
An article on biorxiv.org (Lohmann G et al., Inflated False Negative Rates Undermine Reproducibility in Task-Based fMRI) investigates false negative rates in task-fMRI studies (specifically in this pa
Knowledge of critical functional brain areas can aid the neurosurgeon in operative planning. However, unique challenges are present in attempting to investigate brain function in the pediatric populat
