News tagged with neurosurgeon

Giffords awake, communicates after skull surgery

(AP) -- A day after surgery to repair her skull, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' doctor has dubbed her "gorgeous Gabby," encouraged by how she looks and is communicating after an operation considered a major ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Giffords: A poignant presence, but out of view

(AP) -- It's a sight many Americans would surely love to see: a recovering Rep. Gabrielle Giffords watching as her astronaut husband blasts off into space.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Brain bypass surgery sparks restoration of lost brain tissue

Neurosurgeons at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Toronto Western Hospital, have for the first time, initiated the restoration of lost brain tissue through brain bypass surgery in patients where blood flow to the brain is ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new method to localize the epileptic focus in severe epilepsy

The first two stereo-EEG explorations in Finland were carried out by neurosurgeons of the Epilepsy surgery team in Helsinki University Central Hospital this spring. The method reinforces other examination methods already ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How brain surgery saved the life of a patient preparing to die

John Moran was 27 years old when he underwent a long-shot brain surgery for what appeared to be a malignant tumor that would almost certainly be fatal.

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created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Methodist neurosurgeon first in world to implant next generation device for deep brain stimulation therapy

A 65-year-old woman with Parkinson's disease became the first patient in the United States to receive a new device for deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Brain injuries rise sharply in minor hockey after bodychecking rules relaxed: study

Minor league hockey players in the Atom division are more than 10 times likely to suffer a brain injury since bodychecking was first allowed among the 9 and 10-year-olds, says a study led by St. Michael's Hospital neurosurgeon ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Giffords makes 'leaps and bounds' in recovery

(AP) -- She can talk, even saying short sentences. With some help, she can walk. She also knows that she was shot.

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created Mar 12, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Which side of the brain rotates a mental picture?

Consider the simple situation in which you are walking around the kitchen and decide to pick up your own cup of tea, which is identical to others lying on the table. Your brain chooses the correct cup of tea by using different ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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

Is it Alzheimer's? Maybe not

Alicia Harper spent years as a missionary, working in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Mexico, but she faced her greatest challenge six years ago when, at age 69, her mind and body began to falter.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Famed neurosurgeon's century-old notes reveal 'modern' style admission of medical error

The current focus on medical errors isn't quite as new as it seems. A Johns Hopkins review of groundbreaking neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing's notes, made at the turn of the last century, has turned up copious documentation of ...

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created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Injured gymnast treated with cold recovering from spinal cord damage

A double flip gone wrong two weeks ago sent a 20-year-old Miami state champion gymnast to Jackson Memorial Hospital with a bilateral dislocation of two vertebrae. Jorge Valdez had attempted the double flip at a gym near The ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Beyond the bullet: Surviving a shot to the head carries host of challenges

The spectral images, reproduced in neurosurgery journals and textbooks, could be captioned "Beauty and the Beast." Captured by X-ray and CT scan, the human brain is pierced by a bullet, nail, pool cue or chunk of razor-sharp ...

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created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Family: Giffords will move to Houston rehab center

(AP) -- U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will be moved Friday to a rehabilitation hospital in Houston to begin the next phase of her recovery from a gunshot wound, barring medical issues that would delay the ...

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created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many factors key to Giffords' survival, docs say

(AP) -- It looks like Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is one of the lucky ones. Few people who take a bullet to the brain - just 10 percent - survive such a devastating wound.

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created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery (or neurological surgery) is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spine, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.

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