Being asked to sing while a surgeon is operating on your brain sounds bizarre. But in some highly specialised procedures, singing, talking, counting or answering simple questions can be an important ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Matilda "Tilly" Phillips was 15 years old when she underwent a 12-hour brain operation to treat an arteriovenous malformation (AVM ...

The last thing Francisco Rosado remembers seeing was an apple displayed on a cellphone by the neurosurgeon operating on his ...

To test complex brain functions during neurosurgical procedures, surgeons must operate on awake, locally anesthetized patients. This allows surgeons to interact with them and test how their ...

When removing cancerous tissue in the brain, neurosurgeons often use “awake brain mapping” to minimize the risk of causing unintended disruptions to a patient’s quality of life while removing as much ...

Adult glioma is associated with a wide range of symptoms and variable survival that are not fully explained by tumour location or subtype. Recent work suggests that the disease may be better ...