Sentences with phrase «underwent brain surgery»

I was also with a malpractice attorney while I had seizures and underwent brain surgery — unfortunately he died before we were engaged.

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

Nana Kwame underwent a Brain surgery at the Korlebu Teaching Hospital.

Plus, offensive line coach Geoff Dartt underwent brain surgery to remove two tumors in the middle of the season.

He was taken to Georgetown Hospital where he underwent brain surgery to remove most of the cyst.

Farnsworth, who made a fortune selling Bibles and who operates one of the few dry ballparks in all of baseball, had recently undergone brain surgery, so you could hardly blame him.

Showing a few tricky moves he may use as a college running back, he disappeared from the arena to telephone his father, who had undergone brain surgery two weeks before.

To investigate, they studied 26 people of different ages while they were undergoing brain surgery.

But it could be a hard sell for patients desperate enough to undergo brain surgery.

Researchers mapped out the motor homunculus decades ago by applying brief — 50 - millisecond or so — pulses of electricity to different parts of the primary motor cortex in humans who were undergoing brain surgery.

She suggests monitoring EEG activity in people undergoing brain surgery that involves cooling the brain and reducing its blood supply.

To uncover the identities and roles of these channels in humans, Donald Welsh and colleagues from the University of Calgary investigated smooth muscle cells from cerebral arteries harvested from patients undergoing brain surgery.

In middle school I started to get much worse, probably due to stress; at the time, my brother was undergoing brain surgery.

Born deaf, Grayson Clamp was able to hear at the age of three after undergoing brain surgery.

When Henry Molaison of Hartford Connecticut, born in 1926, was 27 years old, he agreed to undergo brain surgery to alleviate his epilepsy.

Not exact matches

Washington (CNN)- Chuck Colson, the convicted Watergate figure turned evangelist, is in critical condition after undergoing surgery over the weekend following a brain hemorrhage, according to his publicist.

After being transported to a Grenoble, France hospital, Schumacher underwent an surgery to remove blood clots from his brain.

Michael Schumacher has undergone a second brain surgery and a neurological scan shows that his condition, though still critical, has improved «slightly» in an update provided by his doctors Tuesday.

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.

(He revealed last week he has to undergo surgery to remove a benign brain tumor, but has insisted he will remain a congressional candidate).

Republicans with exploratory committees include Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, whose $ 33,790 in the third quarter brought his total to $ 195,941 (Boughton underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor during the quarter); State Sen. Toni Boucher of Wilton ($ 43,336 third quarter, $ 58,890 total) and Norwalk's Steve Obsitnik, who raised $ 63,696 in the third quarter and $ 265,363 to date.

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

It was clear from the long straight lacerations that the human skulls had undergone some sort of primitive brain surgery.

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.

In ordinary circumstances, Künzler would have to undergo exploratory brain surgery.

The patients agreed to undergo several minutes of deep brain stimulation to these regions during surgery as the electrode was being implanted.

In addition, the vast majority of children who undergo fetal surgery are born prematurely and thus may be subject to higher rates of blindness, cerebral palsy, and brain hemorrhage.

Loeb and colleagues used a technique called magnetic resonance spectroscopy to identify the metabolomic signature of epileptic versus non-epileptic brain tissues removed from nine patients who underwent invasive electrical brain monitoring as part of their epilepsy surgery.

In 1953, a patient named Henry Molaison underwent an experimental brain surgery that halted his seizures.

Lee Jong - wook, the director - general of the World Health Organization (WHO), died in Geneva, Switzerland, this morning after having undergone emergency surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain on Saturday.

Editor's Note: This article originally stated that researchers sometimes implant electrodes in the brains of epilepsy patients undergoing surgery.

Working with Seattle, Washington — area neurosurgeons, the Allen Institute acquired healthy cells from the cortex — the outermost layer of the brain that coordinates perception, memory, thoughts, and consciousness — from patients undergoing surgery for epilepsy or brain tumors.

Penfield stimulated the brain with electricity in patients undergoing epilepsy surgery, and used the results to draw a â $ œmotor homunculusâ $: a distorted representation of the human body within the brain.

«This study didn't look at whether those who underwent neurosurgery in childhood went on to develop Alzheimer's disease and there is currently no evidence that Alzheimer's can be transmitted through brain surgery.»

He underwent emergency brain surgery, weeks in ICU and months in hospital, which proved to be a highly stressful and difficult time for our family.

I've undergone two surgeries in the past seven months, one being an invasive brain surgery, and both failed to cure or even lessen my chronic, rare nerve disorder.

«When a blood clot was found in my brain while we were vacationing in Michigan, I had to undergo an emergency surgery immediately.

Tribe, a filmmaker based in LA and Berlin, contributed a film installation about H.M., a man who lost his short term memory after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the 1950s.

She underwent multiple surgeries and a craniotomy to relieve her brain of the blood accumulation.

Rasouli, now 62, underwent surgery to remove a benign brain tumor in October 2010.

Patients who have undergone knee or hip replacement surgery while on Xarelto have developed serious blood clots — which could trigger a stroke or lead to possible heart attack if the blood clots were to travel to the brain.

Family members said the victim was in a medically induced coma and needed to undergo surgery for his severe brain injuries.

Very often, there are expensive, long - term treatments, therapies and / or surgeries that patients have to undergo in the years following a brain injury.

This channel catalogues life following diagnosis of early onset Parkinson's Disease, and the Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery that I underwent to control my symptoms.

Mia fully recovered from her head trauma, but Brooke passed away after undergoing two separate emergency brain surgeries and a seven - day coma.