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

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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, ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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).

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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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