News tagged with functional neurosurgery


Successful neurosurgery with transcranial MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound

Successful neurosurgery with transcranial MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Magnetic Resonance Center of the University Children's Hospital Zurich has achieved a world first break through in MR-guided, non-invasive neurosurgery. Ten patients have been successfully treated by means ...





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Researchers find that the unexpected is a key to human learning

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The human brain's sensitivity to unexpected outcomes plays a fundamental role in the ability to adapt and learn new behaviors, according to a new study by a team of psychologists and neuroscientists from the University of ...


Researcher finds natural hydrogel helps heal spinal cord

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research led by a scientist at the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center has shown injecting biomaterial gel into a spinal cord injury site provides significantly improved healing. The ...


1 conjoined twin talking after separation surgery (AP)

1 conjoined twin talking after separation surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A Bangladeshi toddler separated this week from her conjoined twin sister was talking and behaving normally Thursday after waking from a medically induced coma, the head of the surgery team said.


Diffusion tensor imaging increases ability to remove benign tumors in children

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study published this week in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics finds that operative plans for removing Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma, or JPA, tumors in the thalamus of the brain can be augmented with Diffusion Tensor ...


Study identifies new way to biopsy brain tumors in real time

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new miniature, hand-held microscope may allow more precise removal of brain tumors and an easier recognition of tumor locations during surgery.


Precuneus region of human and monkey brain is divided into 4 distinct regions

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study published this week in PNAS provides a comprehensive comparative functional anatomy study in human and monkey brains which reveals highly similar brain networks preserved across evolution.


Ice cream researchers making sweet strides with 'functional foods'

Ice cream researchers making sweet strides with 'functional foods' (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A comfort food, a tasty treat, an indulgence - ice cream conjures feelings of happiness and satisfaction for millions. Ice cream researchers at the University of Missouri have discovered ways to make ice cream ...


Breakthrough in 3-D Brain Mapping Enables Removal of Fist-Sized Tumor

Breakthrough in 3-D Brain Mapping Enables Removal of Fist-Sized Tumor

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technology involving the fusion of four different types of images into a 3-D map of a patient's brain has helped University of Cincinnati (UC) specialists successfully remove a fist-sized ...


Study: Aerobic activity may keep the brain young

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created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine finds that aerobic activity may keep the brain young.


New findings suggest strategy to help generate HIV-neutralizing antibodies

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New discoveries about anti-HIV antibodies may bring researchers a step closer to creating an effective HIV vaccine, according to a new paper co-authored by scientists at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute ...



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