Sentences with phrase «of brain surgeon»

These inclines and ramps are incredibly technical, often hinging on the player's ability to perform several split - second maneuvers in a row, on top of having a feather - light touch and the attention to micro detail of a brain surgeon.

The job of a teacher is not all that different than the job of a brain surgeon.

I'm neither a brain surgeon nor the son of a brain surgeon, but...

I'm neither a brain surgeon nor the son of a brain surgeon, but... Let me come right out and say it: The future belongs to right - brain leaders and right - brain communicators.

I'm neither a brain surgeon nor the son of a brain surgeon, but my bookshelves are filled with books on neurology.

Morphometrics is also providing clues to the development of fetal alcohol syndrome and Alzheimer's disease and is improving the ability of brain surgeons to map out the routes they will take to perform delicate operations.

Doctor Strange is the crème de la crème of brain surgeons, living the high life in New York City, humiliating his colleagues whenever opportunity strikes, whose hands are crippled in a spectacular car accident set off by his own entitlement and distraction.

the whole discussion is one which makes me think of someoen who says he has a headache in a company of brain surgeons.

Not exact matches

We can no more create expert consumers of financial products and services than we can transform these same consumers into brain surgeons.

Even those who demand their own sartorial freedom from symbolism would not hire a defense lawyer who wore pajamas (which would serve the practical function of covering the body as well as a suit) to court, or submit to an operation by a brain surgeon who wore a Dracula sweatshirt in his consulting room.

Ben Carson has ranked as one of the top Republican presidential candidates in a field of over a dozen — a position that even the retired brain surgeon himself didn't expect.

Do No Harm, published more than four decades on from that outpouring of adolescent angst, is his account of a medical career which has seen Marsh recognised as one of the country's most accomplished brain surgeons.

In many cases, surgeons can save brain tissue that's on the brink of death by removing clots in the brain.

Under this induced deep hypothermia, surgeons are able to briefly stop the heart while performing procedures on the heart or large vessels close to the heart without increasing the risk of permanent brain damage.

In order to find an answer to this question crucial for clinical practice, Diane Lazard, an ear, nose and throat surgeon at the Institut Vernes (Paris) and Anne - Lise Giraud, neuroscientist in the UNIGE's Faculty of Medicine, have sought to identify which brain factors might be linked to the success or failure of implants.

He accompanied a team of surgeons as they removed a still - beating heart from a donor (the victim of a brain aneurysm) and transplanted it into the chest, and life, of a waiting recipient.

Using data from brain imaging techniques that enable visualising the brain's activity, a neuroscientist at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and a Parisian ENT surgeon have managed to decipher brain reorganisation processes at work when people start to lose their hearing, and thus predict the success or failure of a cochlear implant among people who have become profoundly deaf in their adult life.

The findings, reported in tomorrow's issue of Nature, may help educators better evaluate language learning strategies, and they should help brain surgeons avoid damaging a person's native language area.

A surgeon uses an electrode to stimulate selected neurons in the brain of a woman with Parkinson's disease.

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have discovered that abnormalities of blood vessels in the brain may play a major role in the development of schizophrenia, a debilitating condition that affects around 1 % of people in Ireland.

The finding suggests that brain surgeons and the designers of neural prosthetics have a much smaller margin of error than previously thought — shifting an electrode even slightly could activate an entirely different set of neurons.

University of Florida surgeons use mapping software to plan the insertion of an electrode into a patient's brain.

In 1999 the FDA approved the material for clinical use, and soon surgeons across the nation began using it on patients to repair rotator cuffs, abdominal hernias, and esophageal reflux damage, and even to induce the regrowth of the outer lining of the brain.

The surgeon removes the bone flap, exposing the meninges — the layers of membrane that envelop the brain.

Our reporter watches a brain surgeon implanting electrodes inside the skull of a person with epilepsy to pinpoint where his seizures start

«There are lots of different ways to go into the brain,» says Hirsch, «and if you can tell the surgeon that you put a language function more at risk by going in from this direction, they'll have a real advantage.»

Images of the tumor cells are immediately created on an LCD screen observed as the surgeon scans the instrument across the tumor or brain surface.

More important, perhaps, is that brain surgeons now use the science of shape in the operating room, where they have long fretted over just where to do their cutting.

«Noninvasive brain imaging shows readiness of trainees to perform operations: Surgeons who trained on simulator had higher level of cortical activation and faster times for cutting tasks.»

1938 Canadian surgeon Kenneth McKenzie performed a hemispherectomy, the surgical removal of one side of the brain, to manage cerebral palsy.

In his letter, Peter Jones refers to a brain surgeon who saw equal numbers of head injuries among cyclists who...

Chang — co-director of the Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses, a UC Berkeley - UC San Francisco collaboration — is both a brain surgeon and a neuroscientist familiar with the field's deep computational frontiers.

To determine which areas of the brain may contribute most to a patient's seizures, surgeons typically examine electroencephalograms (EEGs), which reveal electrical activity in different parts of the brain.

Several days after imaging, the patient underwent brain surgery; using the images as a guide, surgeons safely removed most of her tumor.

The strategy, devised by Marinho Lopes of the University of Exeter and colleagues, could help surgeons select specific brain areas for removal to stop seizures.

Surgeons in the US have pioneered the use of a mechanical arm laden with sensors to track the positions of their surgical instruments while they operate on patients» brains.

By removing tissue from each side of Molaison's brain, the surgeon helped quell the attacks but destroyed his patient's ability to form new memories.

In a 14 - hour operation last July in Vienna, Austria, a team of nine surgeons led by Rolf Ewers removed the diseased organ and replaced it with a tongue from a brain - dead donor.

The findings, published in the October edition of The American Surgeon, suggest THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, may help protect the brain in cases of traumatic brain injury, the researchers said.

According to Zinreich, the mechanical sensor arm enables the surgeon to see the exact relationship of the sinuses to critical nearby areas such as the eye socket and the brain.

The study, «The Negative Impact of Anemia in Outcome from Traumatic Brain Injury,» was presented at the recent 84th American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Scientific Meeting.

To locate these areas, surgeons implant electrodes across the surface of the brain that need to stay in place for many days.

In 2004, surgeons placed a tiny 100 - electrode array in his primary motor cortex, the brain region that controls voluntary movement, to collect electrical impulses from nerve cells and send them to a series of signal processors.

A surgeon named William Beecher Scoville had done experimental surgeries suggesting that severe epilepsy could be treated by removing the parts of the brain that caused the electrical malfunction.

The procedure, which involved attaching the nose, chin, cheeks, and lips of a 46 - year - old brain - dead woman, set off a firestorm of criticism that lingered even after the French surgeons declared in July 2006, in the medical journal The Lancet, that the graft was «successful with respect to appearance, sensitivity, and acceptance by the patient.»

«We would get about 300 helicopters landing a month, all having some level of trauma,» says Dr. Elisha Powell, an orthopedic surgeon who served as commander of the U.S. Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq, a facility described as «MASH on steroids,» where most of the severely brain injured are treated.

In the first, surgeons will inject ES - cell - derived neuronal - precursor cells into the brains of individuals with Parkinson's disease.

The autopsy surgeon, one Thomas S. Harvey, removed Einstein's brain and later stored portions of it in a jar at his private practice in Weston, Missouri.

Then, surgeons placed more electrodes on the surface of Blackwell's brain, near the suspect point of origin in the temporal lobe.

Surgeons at the City of Hope Medical Center cut a tumor the size of a tennis ball out of the left side of Heil's brain.