The Conversation - How the brain is rebuilt after an operation
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This excellent article by the great teacher of neurosurgery Hugues Duffau helps us to better understand how we recover after a brain operation.
A brain zone, a function: for more than a century, it was proclaimed that the brain was operating according to a so -called localizationist , in which a brain area was supposed to correspond to a given function (movement, attention, language or affect). In fact, any lesion of one of these areas considered to be critical should lead to severe and definitive neurological consequences.
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