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Intraoperative mapping of executive function using electrocorticography for patients with low-grade gliomas

BACKGROUND: Intraoperative functional mapping with direct electrical stimulation during awake surgery for patients with diffuse low-grade glioma has been used in recent years to optimize the balance between surgical resection and quality of life following surgery. Mapping of executive functions is p...

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Autores principales: Erez, Yaara, Assem, Moataz, Coelho, Pedro, Romero-Garcia, Rafael, Owen, Mallory, McDonald, Alexa, Woodberry, Emma, Morris, Robert C., Price, Stephen J., Suckling, John, Duncan, John, Hart, Michael G., Santarius, Thomas
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Publicado: Springer Vienna 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8053659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33222010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00701-020-04646-6
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author Erez, Yaara
Assem, Moataz
Coelho, Pedro
Romero-Garcia, Rafael
Owen, Mallory
McDonald, Alexa
Woodberry, Emma
Morris, Robert C.
Price, Stephen J.
Suckling, John
Duncan, John
Hart, Michael G.
Santarius, Thomas
author_facet Erez, Yaara
Assem, Moataz
Coelho, Pedro
Romero-Garcia, Rafael
Owen, Mallory
McDonald, Alexa
Woodberry, Emma
Morris, Robert C.
Price, Stephen J.
Suckling, John
Duncan, John
Hart, Michael G.
Santarius, Thomas
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description BACKGROUND: Intraoperative functional mapping with direct electrical stimulation during awake surgery for patients with diffuse low-grade glioma has been used in recent years to optimize the balance between surgical resection and quality of life following surgery. Mapping of executive functions is particularly challenging because of their complex nature, with only a handful of reports published so far. Here, we propose the recording of neural activity directly from the surface of the brain using electrocorticography to map executive functions and demonstrate its feasibility and potential utility. METHODS: To track a neural signature of executive function, we recorded neural activity using electrocorticography during awake surgery from the frontal cortex of three patients judged to have an appearance of diffuse low-grade glioma. Based on existing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) evidence from healthy participants for the recruitment of areas associated with executive function with increased task demands, we employed a task difficulty manipulation in two counting tasks performed intraoperatively. Following surgery, the data were extracted and analyzed offline to identify increases in broadband high-gamma power with increased task difficulty, equivalent to fMRI findings, as a signature of activity related to executive function. RESULTS: All three patients performed the tasks well. Data were recorded from five electrode strips, resulting in data from 15 channels overall. Eleven out of the 15 channels (73.3%) showed significant increases in high-gamma power with increased task difficulty, 26.6% of the channels (4/15) showed no change in power, and none of the channels showed power decrease. High-gamma power increases with increased task difficulty were more likely in areas that are within the canonical frontoparietal network template. CONCLUSIONS: These results are the first step toward developing electrocorticography as a tool for mapping of executive function complementarily to direct electrical stimulation to guide resection. Further studies are required to establish this approach for clinical use.
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spelling pubmed-80536592021-05-05 Intraoperative mapping of executive function using electrocorticography for patients with low-grade gliomas Erez, Yaara Assem, Moataz Coelho, Pedro Romero-Garcia, Rafael Owen, Mallory McDonald, Alexa Woodberry, Emma Morris, Robert C. Price, Stephen J. Suckling, John Duncan, John Hart, Michael G. Santarius, Thomas Acta Neurochir (Wien) Technical Note - Functional Neurosurgery - Other BACKGROUND: Intraoperative functional mapping with direct electrical stimulation during awake surgery for patients with diffuse low-grade glioma has been used in recent years to optimize the balance between surgical resection and quality of life following surgery. Mapping of executive functions is particularly challenging because of their complex nature, with only a handful of reports published so far. Here, we propose the recording of neural activity directly from the surface of the brain using electrocorticography to map executive functions and demonstrate its feasibility and potential utility. METHODS: To track a neural signature of executive function, we recorded neural activity using electrocorticography during awake surgery from the frontal cortex of three patients judged to have an appearance of diffuse low-grade glioma. Based on existing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) evidence from healthy participants for the recruitment of areas associated with executive function with increased task demands, we employed a task difficulty manipulation in two counting tasks performed intraoperatively. Following surgery, the data were extracted and analyzed offline to identify increases in broadband high-gamma power with increased task difficulty, equivalent to fMRI findings, as a signature of activity related to executive function. RESULTS: All three patients performed the tasks well. Data were recorded from five electrode strips, resulting in data from 15 channels overall. Eleven out of the 15 channels (73.3%) showed significant increases in high-gamma power with increased task difficulty, 26.6% of the channels (4/15) showed no change in power, and none of the channels showed power decrease. High-gamma power increases with increased task difficulty were more likely in areas that are within the canonical frontoparietal network template. CONCLUSIONS: These results are the first step toward developing electrocorticography as a tool for mapping of executive function complementarily to direct electrical stimulation to guide resection. Further studies are required to establish this approach for clinical use. Springer Vienna 2020-11-22 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8053659/ /pubmed/33222010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00701-020-04646-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
spellingShingle Technical Note - Functional Neurosurgery - Other
Erez, Yaara
Assem, Moataz
Coelho, Pedro
Romero-Garcia, Rafael
Owen, Mallory
McDonald, Alexa
Woodberry, Emma
Morris, Robert C.
Price, Stephen J.
Suckling, John
Duncan, John
Hart, Michael G.
Santarius, Thomas
Intraoperative mapping of executive function using electrocorticography for patients with low-grade gliomas
title Intraoperative mapping of executive function using electrocorticography for patients with low-grade gliomas
title_full Intraoperative mapping of executive function using electrocorticography for patients with low-grade gliomas
title_fullStr Intraoperative mapping of executive function using electrocorticography for patients with low-grade gliomas
title_full_unstemmed Intraoperative mapping of executive function using electrocorticography for patients with low-grade gliomas
title_short Intraoperative mapping of executive function using electrocorticography for patients with low-grade gliomas
title_sort intraoperative mapping of executive function using electrocorticography for patients with low-grade gliomas
topic Technical Note - Functional Neurosurgery - Other
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8053659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33222010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00701-020-04646-6
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