Simple pharmaceutical interventions could help older brains cope with memory impairment and recovery after surgery, new ...

Dr. Mohana Rao Patibandla’s 51-case series highlights safer, minimally invasive parafascicular techniques for deep brain ...

Prof Brennan uses a surgical drill to remove a flap of skull. The exposed brain is pink, flushed with blood, and gently ...

Brain aneurysm surgery is a lifesaving medical procedure that attempts to repair a bulging, weakened area in the wall of a brain artery. A brain aneurysm is a balloon-like bulge in an artery in the ...

MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

Awake brain surgery is a safe and effective treatment for several brain conditions. Although it may be intimidating for a person to be awake during brain surgery, this is often an essential part of ...

Neurosurgeons are typically portrayed in one of two ways in popular culture. One is as a brilliant, if arrogant, boffin. These doctors are intellectuals (it is brain surgery, after all) who have very ...

During a recent operation on a patient’s brain, neurosurgeon Dr. Daniel Orringer noticed something peculiar: he could almost feel the patient’s positivity emanating from them. Typically, we perceive ...

NEW YORK, May 4, 2006--Sadly, none of the treatments for epilepsy--anti-seizure medications, a procedure called vagus nerve stimulation, a special diet --could quell the electrical storms in the young ...