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Reversible deficit affecting the perception of tone of a human voice after tumour resection from the right auditory cortex

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We report on a young woman operated for a ganglioglioma involving the right auditory cortex (AC), presenting with auditory seizures. Despite a normal pre-operative examination, a specific post-operative disorder affecting the perception of a human voice occurred. The patient was unable to recognise the tone of familiar voices while she recognised the expressed content. A temporal lobectomy for recurrence was performed two years later. The patient recovered from the voice perception deficit. This report shows that (1) a discrete site within the AC is specifically involved in the perception of tone of the human voice (2) functional compensation is possible.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Hassan II, Fez, Morocco

    M. Benzagmout & M. El. F. Chaoui

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, CHU de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    H. Duffau

  3. Laboratoire de la Cognition et du Comportement, CNRS/Université de Paris V René Descartes, Institut de Psychologie, Boulogne, Billancourt, France

    H. Duffau

  4. INSERM U678, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, Cedex, France

    H. Duffau

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Correspondence: Hugues Duffau, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neurosurgery, Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, CHU de Montpellier, 80 Avenue Augustin Fliche, 34295 Montpellier, Cedex 5, France.

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Benzagmout, M., Chaoui, M. & Duffau, H. Reversible deficit affecting the perception of tone of a human voice after tumour resection from the right auditory cortex. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 150, 589–593 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-008-1495-4

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