News tagged with brain surgery
New imaging techniques prove valuable tools to assess stroke risk
(Medical Xpress) -- Vanderbilt radiologists are rolling out powerful new imaging techniques that provide clearer pictures of the delicate ebb and flow of blood through brain tissue in patients at risk for stroke.
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Jan 23, 2012 |
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Eva Peron may have had secret lobotomy: researchers
Eva Peron, the glamorous first lady of Argentina in the 1940s and 50s, may have been given a secret lobotomy shortly before her death at age 33, scientific researchers said in a new report.
Dec 23, 2011 |
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Surgery to stop strokes reroutes vessels from torso to brain
(Medical Xpress) -- Five-year-old Ava Menefee was suffering frightening stroke-like episodes: One side of her face would temporarily droop, or she’d lose all sensation in one hand. Although the girl had ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Patient receives first prescription for FDA-approved brain tumor treatment
(Medical Xpress) -- The University of Illinois Hospital is the first center in North America to prescribe a new FDA-approved treatment for patients with the most common and aggressive type of brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme, ...
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Brain function involved in recovery of facial paralysis is different according to sex
Research work drawn up by specialists from the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at the University of Navarra Hospital has shown that, after surgical treatment for facial paralysis through using ...
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Neurosurgeons champion brain bypass in select patients
A microsurgical procedure that has lost some ground to advances in endovascular therapy still plays a critical role in the management of selected neurovascular disorders, according to a University Hospitals Case Medical Center ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Drug treatment shows promise for brain blood vessel abnormality
A drug treatment has been proven to prevent lesions from cerebral cavernous malformation -- a brain blood vessel abnormality that can cause bleeding, epilepsy and stroke -- for the first time in a new study.
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Oct 27, 2011 |
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AAN releases updated guideline for treating essential tremor
The American Academy of Neurology is releasing an updated guideline on how to best treat essential tremor, which is the most common type of tremor disorder and is often confused with other movement disorders such as Parkinson's ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 19, 2011 |
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New tool to help surgeons remove more cancer tissue during brain surgery
Scientists are reporting development and successful initial testing of a new tool that tells whether brain tissue is normal or cancerous while an operation is underway, so that surgeons can remove more of ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Tagging tumors with gold: Scientists use gold nanorods to flag brain tumors
"It's not brain surgery" is a phrase often uttered to dismiss a job's difficulty, but when the task actually is removing a brain tumor, even the slightest mistake could have serious health consequences. To ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Melatonin delays onset, reduces deaths in mouse model of Huntington's disease
Melatonin, best known for its role in sleep regulation, delayed the onset of symptoms and reduced mortality in a mouse model of Huntington's disease, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Device no better than cheaper alternatives for preventing intraoperative awareness
Anesthesiology researchers have shown that a device approved by the Food and Drug Administration to reduce the risk that patients will recall their surgery does not lower the risk of the problem, known as intraoperative awareness, ...
Aug 17, 2011 |
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Laser thermal therapy ends patient’s seizures
After suffering from uncontrollable epileptic seizures for more than 15 years, a new laser therapy has given a 48-year-old Houston-area woman a life without seizures.
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Adding a stent during minimally invasive surgery to repair aneurysms prevents recurrence
The addition of a simple stent can help prevent potentially lethal blood vessel bulges in the brain from recurring after they are repaired in a minimally invasive "coiling" procedure, according to new research by Johns Hopkins ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Brain monitoring breakthrough to go public
Cortical Dynamics Limited (Cortical) has lodged the prospectus for its initial public offering (IPO) with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC).
Jul 11, 2011 |
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Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous systems and spinal column diseases amenable to surgical intervention. In the United States there are only about 3,000 neurosurgeons.[citation needed]
Neurosurgery deals with the study and practice of surgery in diseases of central and peripheral nervous systems.
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