This book aims to give the state-of-the-art of intraoperative brain function mapping for resection of brain tumors in awake conditions, and to become a reference for acquiring the fundamental expertise necessary to select the right intraoperative task at the right time of the surgery. The chapters, all focused on a specific brain function, are divided in 4 parts: sensori-motor and visuo-spatial functions, language functions, higher-order functions, and prospects. Each chapter follows the same outline, including a brief review of the current knowledge about the networks sustaining the function in healthy subjects, the description of the intraoperative tasks designed to monitor the function, a review of the literature describing the deficits in that function after surgery, and a critical appraisal of the benefit provided by intraoperative mapping of that function.

<p>Foreword

Preface
Part I: Sensorimotor and visuo-spatial functions
1. Motor control
2. Vision
3. FEF
4. Spatial cognition
Part II: Language functions
5. Lexical access
6. Spontaneous speech
7. Reading.-  8. Writing
9. Repeating
10. Syntactic abilities
11. Verbs versus nouns naming
12. Verbal short-term memory
13. Proper names retrieval
14. Bilingual patients
Part III: Higher-order functions
15. From verbal to non-verbal semantics
16. Inhibition
17. Set-shifting
18. Social cognition
19. Multitask mapping
Part IV: Prospects
20. Creativity
21. Psychiatric and behavorial traits
22. Awake surgery in patients with poor abilities of verbal communication
23. Can we map inner speech?
24. Beyond tasks: when experience shapes intuition.</p>