When removing cancerous tissue in the brain, neurosurgeons often use "awake brain mapping" to minimize the risk of causing ...

Explore awake brain surgery, a groundbreaking technique that preserves critical brain functions while effectively treating tumors and lesions.

Awake craniotomy remains at the forefront of neurosurgical innovation, allowing for the resection of brain tumours adjacent to critical functional areas while minimising neurological deficits. This ...

Awake brain surgery, medically known as Awake craniotomy, is among the most remarkable advances in modern neurosurgery. The technique is designed not only to remove brain lesions or tumours, but also ...

Elizabeth Day, MD, attends to a patient during an awake brain mapping procedure at the University of Rochester’s Strong ...

It was a series of everyday words the patient spoke — butterfly, hello, turtle, 20, banana — that told surgeons and 2,000 onlookers, they were in the right spot. On Tuesday morning, the staff at ...

A rare look at brain surgery with the patient alert and awake at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven. Anthony Munoz has a brain tumor that is not cancerous. Neurosurgeon Dr. Jennifer Moliterno, ...

The Neurosurgical Team at the University of Rochester works together during an awake craniotomy for brain tumor resection.

At the end of the operation, the neurosurgeon declared that he had never before encountered a patient so calm and at ease during an awake brain surgery. When the living and breathing body of a 71-year ...

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCHandRC) has achieved a milestone in paediatric neurosurgery by performing an awake brain tumour surgery on a 6-year-old patient, the ...