Article: Research reports on brain cancer from R.C. Doss and colleagues provide new insights.(Report)

According to recent research published in the journal Epilepsia, "Magnetoencephalography (MEG)/magnetic source imaging (MSI) is a noninvasive functional neuroimaging procedure used to localize language-specific regions in the brain. The Wada test, or intracarotid amobarbital procedure (IAP), is the gold standard in determining speech/language lateralization for presurgical planning, although it is invasive and associated with morbidity."

"The purpose of this study is to provide further validation on the use of MSI for presurgical language lateralization by comparing results against the IAP. The sample consisted of 35 patients with epilepsy and/or brain tumor ...

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