Language assessment and spontaneous speech in awake brain surgery: a perioperative exploration

This thesis investigates language in glioma patients who undergo awake brain surgery.
The general aim of this thesis is to increase understanding of language functions in this
patient group based on standardized language testing and spontaneous speech analyses
in the pre, intra and postoperative phase. Ultimately, this increased understanding may
contribute to the improvement of intraoperative language monitoring, which can result
in decreasing postoperative language deficits and increasing the quality of life in this
patient group in the future.