To test complex brain functions during neurosurgical procedures, surgeons must operate on awake, locally anesthetized patients. This allows surgeons to interact with them and test how their ...

Doctors may ask patients to sing during awake brain surgery to map critical brain areas and protect speech, movement and ...

A Father’s Day trip ended in the ICU when Fernando Vera suffered a seizure. “I had bitten my tongue, foam, twitch on my left side, and then enter just a catatonic state,” says Fernando. He met with Dr ...

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCHandRC) has achieved a milestone in paediatric neurosurgery by performing an awake brain tumour surgery on a 6-year-old patient, the ...

MARTINSBURG — A West Virginia University Berkeley Medical Center neurosurgeon’s goals of pushing the envelope and striving to create an advanced neurosurgical program in the Eastern Panhandle were ...