The effect of damage to the white matter network and premorbid intellectual ability on postoperative verbal short-term memory and functional outcome in patients with brain lesions.
Cognitive reserve is the capacity to cope with cognitive decline due to brain damage caused by neurological diseases.Premorbid IQ has been investigated as a proxy for cognitive reserve.To date, no study has focused on the effects of premorbid IQ in patients with brain tumors, considering the damage to white matter tracts.We investigated whether a h