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  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in France Leader Award

Overview

Hugues Duffau is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Epidemiology, and Neurology. Their research spans a variety of critical topics including Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Meningioma and Schwannoma Management, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Brain Metastases and Treatment, and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces.

Their publication record includes recent papers such as:

  • New Philosophy, Clinical Pearls, and Methods for Intraoperative Cognition Mapping and Monitoring "à la carte" in Brain Tumor Patients, 2020, Neurosurgery
  • Revisiting the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain: Toward a Meta-Networking Theory of Cerebral Functions, 2020, Physiological Reviews
  • Functional maps of direct electrical stimulation-induced speech arrest and anomia: a multicentre retrospective study, 2021, Brain
  • Limitations of functional neuroimaging for patient selection and surgical planning in glioma surgery, 2020, Neurosurgical FOCUS
  • Effects of supra-total resection in neurocognitive and oncological outcome of high-grade gliomas comparing asleep and awake surgery, 2020, Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Frequent co-authors involved in their research include:

  • Guillaume Herbet
  • Sam Ng
  • Sylvie Moritz-Gasser
  • Anne-Laure Lemaitre
  • Valérie Rigau

The venues most commonly publishing their research are:

  • Journal of neurosurgery
  • Brain
  • Neurosurgery
  • Acta Neurochirurgica
  • Frontiers in Oncology

Best Publications

  • Meta-analyzing left hemisphere language areas: Phonology, semantics, and sentence processing

    Mathieu Vigneau;Virginie Beaucousin;Pierre-Yves Hervé;Hugues Duffau

  • Impact of Intraoperative Stimulation Brain Mapping on Glioma Surgery Outcome: A Meta-Analysis

    Philip C. De Witt Hamer;Santiago Gil Robles;Aeilko H. Zwinderman;Hugues Duffau

  • Contribution of intraoperative electrical stimulations in surgery of low grade gliomas: a comparative study between two series without (1985–96) and with (1996–2003) functional mapping in the same institution

    H. Duffau;M. Lopes;F. Arthuis;A. Bitar

  • Intraoperative mapping of the subcortical language pathways using direct stimulations. An anatomo-functional study.

    Hugues Duffau;Laurent Capelle;Nicole Sichez;Dominique Denvil

  • Direct Evidence for a Parietal-Frontal Pathway Subserving Spatial Awareness in Humans

    Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Marika Urbanski;Hugues Duffau;Emmanuelle Volle

  • New insights into the anatomo-functional connectivity of the semantic system: a study using cortico-subcortical electrostimulations.

    Hugues Duffau;Peggy Gatignol;Emmanuel Mandonnet;Philippe Peruzzi

  • Usefulness of intraoperative electrical subcortical mapping during surgery for low-grade gliomas located within eloquent brain regions: functional results in a consecutive series of 103 patients.

    Hugues Duffau;Laurent Capelle;Dominique Denvil;Nicole Sichez

  • Lessons from brain mapping in surgery for low-grade glioma: insights into associations between tumour and brain plasticity

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  • Intraoperative subcortical stimulation mapping of language pathways in a consecutive series of 115 patients with Grade II glioma in the left dominant hemisphere.

    Hugues Duffau;S T Peggy Gatignol;Emmanuel Mandonnet;Laurent Capelle

  • Guidelines on management of low-grade gliomas: report of an EFNS–EANO* Task Force

    R Soffietti;B G Baumert;L Bello;A von Deimling

  • Contrasting acute and slow-growing lesions: a new door to brain plasticity

    Michel Desmurget;François Bonnetblanc;Hugues Duffau

  • Preferential brain locations of low-grade gliomas.

    Hugues Duffau M.D.;Laurent Capelle

  • Partial correlation for functional brain interactivity investigation in functional MRI.

    Guillaume Marrelec;Alexandre Krainik;Hugues Duffau;Hugues Duffau;Mélanie Pélégrini-Issac;Mélanie Pélégrini-Issac

  • Spontaneous and therapeutic prognostic factors in adult hemispheric World Health Organization Grade II gliomas: a series of 1097 cases: clinical article.

    Laurent Capelle;Denys Fontaine;Emmanuel Mandonnet;Luc Taillandier

  • Anatomic dissection of the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus revisited in the lights of brain stimulation data.

    Juan Martino;Christian Brogna;Santiago G. Robles;Francesco Vergani

  • Continuous growth of mean tumor diameter in a subset of grade II gliomas.

    Emmanuel Mandonnet;Jean Yves Delattre;Marie Laure Tanguy;Kristin R. Swanson

  • Awake surgery for WHO Grade II gliomas within "noneloquent" areas in the left dominant hemisphere: toward a "supratotal" resection. Clinical article.

    Yordanka N Yordanova;Sylvie Moritz-Gasser;Sylvie Moritz-Gasser;Hugues Duffau;Hugues Duffau

  • Stimulation mapping of white matter tracts to study brain functional connectivity

    Hugues Duffau

  • A re-examination of neural basis of language processing: Proposal of a dynamic hodotopical model from data provided by brain stimulation mapping during picture naming

    Hugues Duffau;Hugues Duffau;Sylvie Moritz-Gasser;Sylvie Moritz-Gasser;Emmanuel Mandonnet

  • Does the left inferior longitudinal fasciculus play a role in language? A brain stimulation study

    Emmanuel Mandonnet;Aurélien Nouet;Peggy Gatignol;Laurent Capelle

  • Brain plasticity: From pathophysiological mechanisms to therapeutic applications

    Hugues Duffau

  • Functional recovery after surgical resection of low grade gliomas in eloquent brain: hypothesis of brain compensation.

    H Duffau;L Capelle;D Denvil;N Sichez

Frequent Co-Authors

Guillaume Herbet
Guillaume Herbet University of Montpellier
Sylvie Moritz-Gasser
Sylvie Moritz-Gasser University of Montpellier
Stéphane Lehéricy
Stéphane Lehéricy Sorbonne University
Khê Hoang-Xuan
Khê Hoang-Xuan Université Paris Cité
Dominique Figarella-Branger
Dominique Figarella-Branger Aix-Marseille University
Habib Benali
Habib Benali Concordia University
Marc Sanson
Marc Sanson Sorbonne University
Nikos Paragios
Nikos Paragios CentraleSupélec
Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
Michel Thiebaut de Schotten University of Bordeaux
Philippe Coubes
Philippe Coubes University of Montpellier

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