Her tumour was located in Wernicke’s area, the part of the brain responsible for speech comprehension and language processing ...

It was a series of everyday words the patient spoke — butterfly, hello, turtle, 20, banana — that told surgeons and 2,000 onlookers, they were in the right spot. On Tuesday morning, the staff at ...

At the end of the operation, the neurosurgeon declared that he had never before encountered a patient so calm and at ease during an awake brain surgery. When the living and breathing body of a 71-year ...

Italians are known for their cooking, and their penchant for infusing olives and olive oil into most of their dishes. Hardly a fortnight ago, they brought olives into the surgical theatre too, where ...

Awake craniotomy remains at the forefront of neurosurgical innovation, allowing for the resection of brain tumours adjacent to critical functional areas while minimising neurological deficits. This ...

LONDON -- Seeing a patient stay awake during brain surgery isn't just something you see on your favorite medical TV drama. It happens more than you think. Most recently, it happened in London at ...

When the living and breathing body of a 71-year-old Parkinson’s disease patient was recently lying in a sterile operating theater at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, his head was in Thailand.