Aim: To assess the functional recovery after surgical resection of low-grade gliomas in eloquent brain. Materials & methods: 30 patients with diagnosis of low-grade gliomas and undergoing resection with intra-operative electrical stimulations (IES) for the same were enrolled. The patients in which tumour involved right supplementary and primary motor areas, and the right insular lobe underwent surgery under general anaesthesia, with cortical and sub-cortical IES allowing the detection of the whole cortico-spinal pathways and vice-versa. Examination of all the patients was done immediately after surgery and after four months of surgery.