Alessandra Casarotti

TL;DR: The combination of DTI-FT and ISM decreased the duration of surgery, patient fatigue, and intraoperative seizures, and enhances surgical performance and safety maintaining a high rate of functional preservation.

TL;DR: The resection of the uncinate fasciculus, in its frontal or temporal part, has long-lasting consequences for famous face naming and it is suggested that this fibre tract is part of a circuitry involved in the retrieval of word form for proper names.

TL;DR: It is described how a neuropsychological evaluation in patients with brain tumors should be performed, specifically in the case of low-grade gliomas, and underline that sensitive and wide-ranging tests are required; specific tasks based on the lesion site should be added.

TL;DR: To assess the role of the superior longitudinal fascicle, the inferior fronto‐occipital fascicles, and the posterior parietal lobe in visuospatial attention in humans during awake brain surgery, three fascicles are studied.

TL;DR: The cortical and subcortical neural correlates underlying item and order information in verbal short‐term memory (STM) were investigated by means of digit span in 29 patients with direct electrical stimulation during awake surgery for removal of a neoplastic lesion and it was demonstrated that the SLF‐III is involved in transferring order information from Geschwind's area to Broca's area.