Awake craniotomy resources

Intra-operative language assessment and frameworks 

• The British Object and Action Naming Test for Intraoperative Mapping (BOATIM, 2025)
  Mumtaz, H., Piasecki, A.E., Kirjavainen, M., Newson, M., Cree, M., Farrow, M., & Barua, N.U. (2025) The British object and action naming test for intraoperative mapping (BOATIM): A standardised and clinically tested framework for awake brain surgery. Acta Neurochirurgica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-025-06521-8 
• The Dutch Linguistic intra-operative protocol (DuLIP, 2015)
  De Witte, E., Satoer, D., Robert, E., Colle, H., Verheyen, S., Visch-Brink, E., and Mariën, P. (2015) The Dutch linguistic intraoperative protocol: a valid linguistic approach to awake brain surgery. Brain and language, 140, pp35-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2014.10.011
• Systematic review: Offers an updated model of the DuLIP following a review of intra-operative errors. Its aim is to improve localisation validity (2023)
  Collée, E., Vincent, A., Visch-Brink, E., De Witte, E., Dirven, C., and Satoer, D. (2023). Localization patterns of speech and language errors during awake brain surgery: a systematic review. Neurosurgical review, 46(1), 38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10143-022-01943-9 
• Consensus recommendations from clinical functional MRI (fMRI) and language mapping, which offers a comprehensive overview of cortical regions, their associated language process and predicted consequence with damage (2025)
  Voets, N. L., Ashtari, M., Beckmann, C. F., Benjamin, C. F., Benzinger, T., Binder, J. R., Bizzi, A., Bjornson, B., Chang, E. F., Douw, L., Gawryluk, J., Geletneky, K., Glasser, M. F., Haller, S., Jenkinson, M., Jovicich, J., Leuthardt, E., Mian, A., Nichols, T. E., … Bookheimer, S. (2025). Consensus recommendations for clinical functional MRI applied to language mapping. Aperture Neuro, 5. https://doi.org/10.52294/001c.128149 
• Systematic review: Offers a comprehensive map of the principle white matter (sub-cortical)  language tracts, describing the most employed tests and expected responses (2024)
  Marino, S., Menna, G., Bilgin, L., Mattogno, P. P., Gaudino, S., Quaranta, D., Caraglia, N., Olivi, A., Berger, M. S., Doglietto, F., and Della Pepa, G. M. (2024). “False friends” in language subcortical mapping: A systematic literature review. World neurosurgery, 190, pp350–361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2024.06.156 
• MULTIMAP: Multilingual picture naming test for mapping eloquent areas during awake surgeries (2021)
  Gisbert-Muñoz S, Quiñones I, Amoruso L, Timofeeva P, Geng S, Boudelaa S, Pomposo I, Gil-Robles S, Carreiras M. MULTIMAP: Multilingual picture naming test for mapping eloquent areas during awake surgeries. Behav Res Methods. 2021 Apr;53(2):918-927. doi: 10.3758/s13428-020-01467-4. PMID: 32901346; PMCID: PMC8062318. 
• Systematic review: Evaluating linguistic protocols in awake surgery (2020)
  Martín-Monzón, I., Rivero Ballagas, Y., and Arias-Sánchez, S. (2020). Language mapping: A systematic review of protocols that evaluate linguistic functions in awake surgery. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 29(4), pp845–854. https://doi.org/10.1080/23279095.2020.1776287 
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