- Promotor
- Promotor
- Co-promotor
- Date
- Friday 6 Sep 2024, 13:00 - 14:30
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
On Friday 6 September 2024, K.E. Collee will defend the doctoral thesis titled: ‘Language Assessment and Spontaneous Speech in Awake Brain Surgery: A perioperative exploration‘.
Brief summary:
This thesis investigates language in glioma patients who undergo awake brain surgery. The general aim of this thesis is to increase understanding of language functions in this patient group based on standardized language testing and spontaneous speech analyses in the pre, intra and postoperative phase. Ultimately, this increased understanding may contribute to the improvement of intraoperative language monitoring, which can result in decreasing postoperative language deficits and increasing the quality of life in this patient group in the future. I
- More information
The public defence will begin exactly at 13.00 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers may be able to watch on the screen outside. There is no possibility of entrance during the first part of the ceremony. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, children under the age of 6 are not allowed during the first part of the ceremony.