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  • Neurosurgery
  • Neuroscience
  • Oncology

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  • Direct cortical stimulation (DCS) is vital for mapping language areas around gliomas before resection.
  • Glioma-infiltrated cortex shows altered functional activity during tasks, impacting information encoding.
  • The influence of task complexity on DCS mapping accuracy remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the correlation between audiovisual picture naming (PN) task complexity and DCS error rates.
  • To identify functional and oncological factors associated with increased DCS errors.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective review of intraoperative PN and word reading (WR) tasks during awake DCS mapping for gliomas.
  • Analysis of word complexity (syllables), patient, and tumor characteristics against error rates.

Main Results:

  • Increased syllables in PN tasks significantly correlated with higher DCS error rates (P=.001).
  • Each additional syllable increased error odds by 2.40 (P<.001); older age also correlated with higher errors.
  • Pre-existing language impairment worsened performance on complex tasks, but error rates did not impact glioma resection extent.

Conclusions:

  • Word complexity, measured by syllables, increases error rates in intraoperative PN tasks.
  • Task complexity does not influence the extent of glioma resection achieved.