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Experimentally-evidenced personality alterations following meningioma resection: A case report

Orepic, Pavo  
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Iannotti, Giannina Rita
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Haemmerli, Julien
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December 1, 2023
Cortex

Personality changes following neurosurgical procedures remain poorly understood and pose a major concern for patients, rendering a strong need for predictive biomarkers. Here we report a case of a female patient in her 40s who underwent resection of a large sagittal sinus meningioma with bilateral extension, including resection and ligation of the superior sagittal sinus, that resulted in borderline personality disorder. Importantly, we captured clinically-observed personality changes in a series of experiments assessing self-other voice discrimination, one of the experimental markers for self-consciousness. In all experiments, the patient consistently confused self- and other voices - i.e., she misattributed other-voice stimuli to herself and self-voice stimuli to others. Moreover, the electroencephalogram (EEG) microstate, that was in healthy participants observed when hearing their own voice, in this patient occurred for other-voice stimuli. We hypothesize that the patient's personality alterations resulted from a gradual development of a venous collateral hemodynamic network that impacted venous drainage of brain areas associated with selfconsciousness. In addition, resection and ligation of the superior sagittal sinus significantly aggravated personality alterations through postoperative decompensation of a direct

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.cortex.2023.08.006
Web of Science ID

WOS:001150168200001

Author(s)
Orepic, Pavo  
Iannotti, Giannina Rita
Haemmerli, Julien
Goga, Cristina
Park, Hyeong-Dong
Betka, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée  
Blanke, Olaf  
Michel, Christoph M.
Bondolfi, Guido
Schaller, Karl
Date Issued

2023-12-01

Publisher

Elsevier Masson, Corp Off

Published in
Cortex
Volume

168

Start page

157

End page

166

Subjects

Life Sciences & Biomedicine

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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Eeg Microstates

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Meningioma Resection

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Post-Surgical Personality Alterations

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Sagittal Sinus Meningioma

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Self-Other Voice Discrimination

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LNCO  
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Swiss National Science Foundation

320030_184677

Pictet Foundation

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February 23, 2024
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