Awake craniotomy is a valuable surgical approach to aid in the identification and preservation of functional areas of the brain during the removal of intrinsic brain tumors in both adult and pediatric patients. Awake brain tumor surgery can be safely performed with extremely low complication and failure rates regardless of ASA classification. The emerging science of connectomics, which aims of mapping brain connectivity, resulted in a paradigmatic shift from a modular account of cerebral organization to a meta-network perspective. This better understanding of connectome increases benefit/risk ratio of surgery by selecting resection in areas deemed "eloquent" according to a localizationist dogma; conversely, by refining intraoperative awake cognitive mapping and monitoring in so-called non-eloquent areas; by improving preoperative information, enabling an optimal selection of intrasurgical tasks tailored to the patient's wishes and by developing an "oncological disconnection surgery.
This Research Topic will explore implications and epidemiology of new technology in primary brain tumors in adult and pediatric patients, explore emerging research and innovative strategies to reduce morbidity, highlight the role of awake craniotomy during surgery and brain connectomics during white matter dissection. This Research Topic aims to provide a complex source of up-to-date data used by neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, radiologists, neurologists, anatomists, psychiatrists, rehabilitation physicians, neuropsychologists.
We welcome Original Research Articles, Systematic Reviews, Meta-Analyses, Clinical Images and thorough Review Articles on this interesting topic based on primary brain tumors, as well as stereotactic radiosurgery, endoscopic brain surgery, laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT), and neuro-oncological series that lay emphasis on neuro-oncology and neurosurgical oncology. Connectomics and direct electrical stimulation in awake surgery are relative to the topic. We will also consider both anatomical and clinical research that reports brain connectome.
Please note: manuscripts consisting solely of bioinformatics or computational analysis of public genomic or transcriptomic databases which are not accompanied by validation (independent cohort or biological validation in vitro or in vivo) are out of scope for this section and will not be accepted as part of this Research Topic.
Awake craniotomy is a valuable surgical approach to aid in the identification and preservation of functional areas of the brain during the removal of intrinsic brain tumors in both adult and pediatric patients. Awake brain tumor surgery can be safely performed with extremely low complication and failure rates regardless of ASA classification. The emerging science of connectomics, which aims of mapping brain connectivity, resulted in a paradigmatic shift from a modular account of cerebral organization to a meta-network perspective. This better understanding of connectome increases benefit/risk ratio of surgery by selecting resection in areas deemed "eloquent" according to a localizationist dogma; conversely, by refining intraoperative awake cognitive mapping and monitoring in so-called non-eloquent areas; by improving preoperative information, enabling an optimal selection of intrasurgical tasks tailored to the patient's wishes and by developing an "oncological disconnection surgery.
This Research Topic will explore implications and epidemiology of new technology in primary brain tumors in adult and pediatric patients, explore emerging research and innovative strategies to reduce morbidity, highlight the role of awake craniotomy during surgery and brain connectomics during white matter dissection. This Research Topic aims to provide a complex source of up-to-date data used by neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, radiologists, neurologists, anatomists, psychiatrists, rehabilitation physicians, neuropsychologists.
We welcome Original Research Articles, Systematic Reviews, Meta-Analyses, Clinical Images and thorough Review Articles on this interesting topic based on primary brain tumors, as well as stereotactic radiosurgery, endoscopic brain surgery, laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT), and neuro-oncological series that lay emphasis on neuro-oncology and neurosurgical oncology. Connectomics and direct electrical stimulation in awake surgery are relative to the topic. We will also consider both anatomical and clinical research that reports brain connectome.
Please note: manuscripts consisting solely of bioinformatics or computational analysis of public genomic or transcriptomic databases which are not accompanied by validation (independent cohort or biological validation in vitro or in vivo) are out of scope for this section and will not be accepted as part of this Research Topic.
