Neural Basis of Language Processing

According to the O.M.S. Classification, grade 2 glioma is a pre-cancerous lesion, slowly progressive, infiltrating the central nervous system, mainly affecting young adults. This surgery should nevertheless be conducted in awake condition to achieve two conflicting goals: get maximum brain tissue infiltrated by the tumor while preserving the integrity of functional structures. So awake after opening the skull, the patient undergoes a series of preoperative tests, administered by a speech therapist present in the operating room. This procedure allows the neurosurgeon to establish an individual functional brain mapping in real time, through the observation by the SLP of the patient's answers to direct electrical stimulation applied to the cortical and sub-cortical. This support is based on the extraordinary plasticity demonstrated by the brain in the presence of a slowly progressive lesion. To ensure the patient the highest achievable load should increase our understanding of brain function, including the neural bases of language, glioma grade 2 is predominantly localized functional area of language.

Sex

All

Minimum age

18 Years

Maximum age

65 Years

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients carry a grade glioma 2 functional area of language and presenting the information to receive surgical care provided in awake for the first time.

or Healthy volunteers will be selected using a matching age and sex of patients in the study (matched to a patient on two of the first forty patients).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Subject presenting cons-indications to MRI (ventricular shunt valve, ferromagnetic foreign bodies, pacemaker, implantable defibrillators, cochlear hearing implant, claustrophobia, ....)
* History of head trauma, ischemic stroke or intracerebral hematoma.