Awake brain surgery, also known as awake craniotomy, is one of the most significant advances in modern neurosurgery—designed not just to treat disease, but to protect the functions that define a ...

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 ...

When removing cancerous tissue in the brain, neurosurgeons often use "awake brain mapping" to minimize the risk of causing unintended disruptions to a patient's quality of life while removing as much ...

Jessica Muniz said she had just sat down to dinner at a friend's house when she noticed something wasn't right. "Suddenly I felt like, a shudder where I couldn’t speak," she said. Muniz didn't think ...

One day last winter, Alison Stewart, the host of “All of It” on WNYC, was alarmed to find herself speaking gibberish. By Julie Besonen Alison Stewart’s health crisis began on Feb. 22, a day ...

LONDON – The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...

LONDON — Music met medicine when a patient played a clarinet solo as she underwent brain surgery for Parkinson's disease and proved that the treatment was working in real time. Denise Bacon, 65, saw ...