Role of Functional Imaging Techniques to Assess Motor and Language Cortical Plasticity in Glioma Patients: A Systematic Review

Figure 5

Schematic representation of the major mechanisms of functional reorganization of and language function in the subacute phase of a stroke lesion and postoperatively in a tumor lesion. Language fMRI activations in a stroke lesion (green color) and in a LGG (blue color) in the left inferior frontal region. Notably, perilesional activations in the left inferior frontal regions along the lesional rim are found both in stroke and in LGG, while additional compensatory activations, i.e., in the right homologue areas are more frequently observed in ischemic lesion.