Sentences with phrase «for brain surgery»

Just like you don't go to a general practitioner for brain surgery, you don't retain generalized legal representation for specialized legal proceedings.

If I had a brain tumour and the head doctor for brain surgery said I need to take out that tumour or you will die.

My reaction to both of them is the same as my laying in pre-op waiting for brain surgery and my surgeon enters singing a Michael Jackson hit, doing the moon walk and high fiving the nurses.

Falling Overnight (Unrated) Bittersweet love story about a 22 year - old cancer patient (Parker Croft) who shares a one - night stand with a pretty photographer (Emilia Zoryan) the day before he's scheduled for brain surgery.

Interesting to see in one months strong pieces supporting lifestyle for cardio risk, «CAM» during treatment for brain surgery, and «CAM» for MS.. Also a number of announcements of new IM centers or clinics in health systems.

Our expert neurologists and neurosurgeons are at the forefront of imaging for brain surgery, as well as radiation therapy for brain, skull and spinal cord tumors and treatments for a wide range of neurologic conditions.

While preparing them for brain surgery, Penfield stimulated different brain regions with electrodes and asked the patients to describe any sensations that resulted.

«Knowledge about the beneficial effects of gelatin could be significant for brain surgery, but also in the development of brain implants,» say the researchers behind the study.

For brain surgery you need anesthesia, an operating room, IV's, and monitors.

Not exact matches

Misdiagnose yourself and you could end up with the mental health equivalent of taking an aspirin for a brain tumor (or getting wheeled into surgery when two painkillers and a nap would do).

In January 2013, The Hartford announced that McGee had surgery for the removal of a brain tumor found during a routine checkup, and that he was cancer - free.

Unless you are on call for somebody who's about to go into brain surgery or give birth, we can do without you for a few hours.

Traditional therapies for brain cancer — surgery, chemotherapy and radiation — haven't been very successful, says Memorial Sloan Kettering's Dr. Baselga, adding, «We have a tremendous need to develop new therapies, especially with children.»

For many patients, the idea of brain surgery can be scary.

At that time the technology of transplant surgery was beginning to make progress, and some people suspected that the desire to establish in law a concept of brain death was motivated only by the wish to obtain organs for transplant before those organs had deteriorated (as they will rapidly when heart and lung activity fail).

This is not brain surgery... the children were horribly hurt and defiled and you are standing up for those who hurt them.

Therefore he can still be Badger Bob, which means living each day for hockey, just as he did before he underwent surgery in August for brain cancer.

The story is an allegory for the death of Pirola's own father, John, who suffered for years through searing neuropathic pain as a result of a brain stem tumor, and over several years, underwent more than 10 brain / skull - based surgeries.

Sir Alex Ferguson no longer needs intensive care after undergoing emergency surgery on Saturday for a brain haemorrhage, Manchester United...

For other patients, especially those identified through brain imaging and other tests as having MTLE, surgery is generally the sole treatment option.

Humans have been performing brain surgery — or at least drilling holes in one anothers» skulls — for thousands of years.

Currently there is no cure for Parkinson's, but the disease can be managed through deep - brain stimulation surgery, physical therapy and medications that increase dopamine signaling in the brain.

But there is a huge added benefit: The seizure patients who volunteer for Schalk's experiments prior to surgery have allowed him and his collaborator, neurosurgeon Eric C. Leuthardt of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, to collect what they claim are among the most detailed pictures ever recorded of what happens in the brain when we imagine speaking words aloud.

David Mikulis, a University of Toronto neuroscientist, for example, met with us and talked about the mechanics of the brain, where emotional components of the brain are and how they might be affected by the kind of invasive surgery RoboCop experiences.

To identify genetic risk factors for SUDEP, the authors analyzed brain tissue that had been removed during epilepsy surgery from 8 people who later experienced SUDEP and from seven living people with similar histories.

So far, researchers with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilBrain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilbrain tumors or epilepsy.

Research paints a complex picture of how surgery and anesthesia might harm the brain, particularly for older patients

«Although radiosurgery has been shown to be an effective post-surgical treatment for metastatic brain tumors, previous studies did not compare patient outcomes from a single hospital over the same period of time,» said N. Scott Litofsky, M.D., chief of the Division of Neurological Surgery at the MU School of Medicine and senior author of the study.

«Targeted radiosurgery better than whole - brain radiation for treating brain tumors: Study shows effectiveness of radiosurgery in controlling spread of brain cancer after surgery.»

The technology still has a lot of obstacles to overcome — the need for digital imaging that can adequately substitute for normal vision and the risk of infection resulting from brain surgery, to name two — but success could have a life - altering impact on the tens of millions of people worldwide suffering from impaired vision.

Right now, treatment for stroke is centered on the first few hours, when rapid intervention with drugs or surgery can prevent brain tissue from dying.

The biggest need for infant brain surgery in the developing world is infection - caused hydrocephalus.»

The reason for this switch, reported online April 6 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, is unclear — perhaps the prior dominance of the right hand made the corresponding brain regions less flexible to reconnections or the surgeries were done slightly differently.

Until recently the only treatments available for conditions affecting the brain were drugs or surgery — a «hammer over the head approach», according to William Tyler, a biomedical engineer at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke and a pioneer of the new brain stimulation techniques.

With Hubel and Wiesel's new understanding of how critical it is to the wiring of the brain for young eyes to get normal visual input, doctors began conducting surgery as early as possible, with much better outcomes.

Devinsky estimates that up to 20 percent of such patients are candidates for surgery because they have focal seizures that can be traced to a specific and surgically approachable site in the brain.

As reported at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in June, the vaccine, together with radiation and chemotherapy, prevented the brain tumor from reemerging after surgery for 12 months as compared with the typical six to seven months with no vaccine.

Open brain surgery is the standard treatment for patients with intractable MTLE.

The researchers found that patients treated with deep brain stimulation survived an average of 6.3 years after the surgery, versus 5.7 years for the non-DBS patients after the date they might have gotten surgery based on their match to a surgery patient — a difference of eight months.

It's used in patients who are potential candidates for surgery to remove the portion of the brain responsible for seizures, known as the epileptogenic zone.

For instance, a previous study discovered significant differences between male and female brains in four regions of white matter — and that female - to - male trans individuals who hadn't had sex reassignment surgery had white matter in these regions that more closely resembled a male brain.

The only surgery needed for Rezai and Bouton's neural bypass system is implantation of the microarray in the brain.

For commercial speech - reading BMIs to become mainstream, one of two things would need to happen: Brain implant surgery would have to become much safer, cheaper and more routine, or noninvasive sensing devices would have to become much more powerful.

Fresh insight emerges into the complex genetics that dictate how the nervous system wires itself for fine - motor control, which gives humans the dexterity for everything from brain surgery to texting

He can't care for them without a license, and most have had brain surgery that means they require special care and can't simply be given to a zoo or sanctuary.

«For the level of person that they studied, there are many alternatives» that don't require brain surgery, Kirsch says.

In this study, the researchers from Imperial's Department of Surgery and Cancer and the Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies, applied xenon to slices of mouse brain tissue after exposing them to blast shockwaves that emulated those produced by improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

The RNS system is for patients with severe seizures who do not respond to medications and are not candidates for surgery because the location of their seizure onset is at a sensitive part of the brain.

Grommet tube placement surgery is carried out in an operating theatre with the use of general anaesthetic, which is a major point of concern for parents who worry about its potential negative impact on brain development in young children.

Dulac's study — which used genetic manipulation and surgery to create VNO-less female mice — reveals that the circuitry for male behaviors appears to be present in all mouse brains.