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Swiftie Mom Sings Along to Taylor Swift During Awake Brain Surgery to Preserve Her Speech

Selena Campione recently underwent awake craniotomy to remove a brain tumor, and sang Taylor Swift during the operation to preserve her speech.

A 36-year-old mother named Selena Campione recently underwent awake craniotomy to remove a brain tumor at Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, where Dr. Nitesh Patel preserved her speech during the operation through the use of a technology called Quicktome Connectomics, which allowed the doctor to monitor Campione’s speech and other sectors of her brain to ensure he wasn’t interfering with them while removing the tumor. “Singing allows me to continuously monitor a patient’s speech, cadence, and rhythm without interruptions and pauses that happen during a conversation,” Patel said in a press release. “My two daughters are huge Taylor Swift fans, and so am I. I hear her music 24 hours a day, in my car, in my house.

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