{"title":"Souvenirs of an awake craniotomy","authors":"Camille Bégin","doi":"10.1093/brain/awaf124","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"What do you, a bilingual person, do when a surgeon asks which language you wish to keep as he is about to perform an awake craniotomy to remove your right frontal lobe brain tumour? Winner of the Brain Essay Competition 2024, Camille Bégin shares her personal experience of brain surgery.","PeriodicalId":9063,"journal":{"name":"Brain","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Brain","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaf124","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CLINICAL NEUROLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
What do you, a bilingual person, do when a surgeon asks which language you wish to keep as he is about to perform an awake craniotomy to remove your right frontal lobe brain tumour? Winner of the Brain Essay Competition 2024, Camille Bégin shares her personal experience of brain surgery.
期刊介绍:
Brain, a journal focused on clinical neurology and translational neuroscience, has been publishing landmark papers since 1878. The journal aims to expand its scope by including studies that shed light on disease mechanisms and conducting innovative clinical trials for brain disorders. With a wide range of topics covered, the Editorial Board represents the international readership and diverse coverage of the journal. Accepted articles are promptly posted online, typically within a few weeks of acceptance. As of 2022, Brain holds an impressive impact factor of 14.5, according to the Journal Citation Reports.