"NON-ELOQUENT" BRAIN REGIONS PREDICT NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL OUTCOME IN TUMOR PATIENTS UNDERGOING AWAKE CRANIOTOMY.

"Non-Eloquent" brain regions predict neuropsychological outcome in tumor patients undergoing awake craniotomy.

Supratotal resection of primary brain tumors is being advocated especially when involving "non-eloquent" tissue.However, there is extensive neuropsychological data implicating functions critical to higher cognition in areas considered "non-eloquent" by most surgeons.The goal of the study was to determine pre-surgical brain regions that would be pre

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Warmer and wetter might not be better

As the climate continues to change, gaps in our understanding of how the altered environment will affect forest hosts and their pathogens widen.In some areas pathogens thought to be present for centuries are changing their behaviour.Dothistroma needle blight caused by the fungus Dothistroma septosporum in northwest British Columbia (BC), Canada, is

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Biogeography and taxonomy of extinct and endangered monk seals illuminated by ancient DNA and skull morphology

Extinctions and declines of large marine vertebrates have major ecological impacts and are of critical concern in marine environments.The Caribbean monk seal, Monachus tropicalis, last definitively reported in 1952, was one of the few marine mammal species to become extinct in historical times.Despite accessories its importance for understanding th

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