The longitudinal study examined the effect of RYBG
surgery on the brain function of 17 obese women.
Not exact matches
After
surgery, the obese women also performed better
on a test measuring executive
function — the
brain's ability to connect past experience and present action — than they did before the procedures.
Neurosurgeon Mitchel Berger at U.C. San Francisco conducts hands -
on «
brain mapping» of language
functions in advance of
surgery to remove tumors.
Surgery can be used to temporarily implant electrodes
on or in the
brain to precisely define the part of the
brain causing seizures and to confirm what neurological
functions that part of the
brain performs.