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

Published inCortex, vol. 168, p. 157-166
Publication date2023-11
First online date2023-08-25
Abstract

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 self-consciousness. In addition, resection and ligation of the superior sagittal sinus significantly aggravated personality alterations through postoperative decompensation of a direct frontal lobe compression. Experimentally mirroring clinical observations, these findings are of high relevance for developing biomarkers of post-surgical personality alterations.

Keywords
  • Borderline personality disorder
  • EEG microstates
  • Meningioma resection
  • Post-surgical personality alterations
  • Sagittal sinus meningioma
  • Self-other voice discrimination
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OREPIC, Pavo et al. Experimentally-evidenced personality alterations following meningioma resection: A case report. In: Cortex, 2023, vol. 168, p. 157–166. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.08.006
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