Sentences with phrase «of brain surgery»

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

They may also be less invasive, he says, eliminating the risks of brain surgery.

One of the brain surgeries left me with a permanent facial paralysis and hearing impaired.

An initial test to determine if a scalpel - free form of brain surgery can reduce tremor caused by Parkinson's disease has produced encouraging results.

Matthew was also assessed for brain surgery, but by this time he had so much scarring and damage to his brain because of all the seizures, that there was no way that they could carry out any kind of brain surgery that would be of any benefit to him.

He decided to train as a doctor, and became hooked on his particular specialism after witnessing his first experience of brain surgery.

During certain types of brain surgery, neural tissue must be removed, either because it is tumorous or because it gives rise to epileptic seizures.

The ancient Greeks provided the first accounts of brain surgery, performed by followers of the physician Hippocrates.

However, no one was included in Halloway's analysis who had a diagnosis or symptoms of dementia, or even mild cognitive impairment; a history of brain surgery; or brain abnormalities such as tumors, as seen on MRIs.

Hfuhruhurr has perfected something called the cranial screw - top method of brain surgery, and uses it to save the life of a beautiful young woman (Kathleen Turner) whom he's hit with his Mercedes.

That bizarre conclusion has emerged from studies of people who have had an extreme form of brain surgery — the complete severing of the thick bundle of nerves connecting the two hemispheres of the brain — in an attempt to cure their epilepsy.

SF is a «black hole game», drawing almost anyone who plays into a world of competition and enjoyment the only possible escape from which (for many) is probably some kind of brain surgery.