Craniotomy - Latest News and Research Updates

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Laughter Helps Keep Patients Calm During Brain Surgery

Highlights: Electrical stimulation in the brain evokes instant laughter followed by a sense of happiness and calmness in a patient undergoing awake brain surgery In addition to keeping patients undergoing awake brain surgery calm, cingulum ...

Biopsy Needle Makes Brain Surgery Safer

Imaging needle technique was found to reduce the risk of dangerous brain bleeds in patients undergoing brain biopsy, stated a team of researchers and clinicians led by the University of Adelaide. The findings of the study are published in the ...

Man Stays wide awake during Brain Tumor Surgery

A 28-year-old man was diagnosed with a brain tumor that was in the size of a Cadbury's Creme Egg. He was kept awake throughout the surgery, while it was being removed by surgeons. Matt Carpenter of east Hull was diagnosed with a low-grade ...

Computational Method Developed to Guide Surgeons During Brain Surgery

Brain surgery is a critical and complicated process. The type of brain surgery done depends highly on the condition being treated. Surgeons often operate in the dark. They have a limited view of the surface of the organ, and can typically not see ...

Brain Surgery Gives Man Remote Control to Manage His Headaches

A 32-year-old UK national, suffering from occipital headaches, can now manage his headaches through remote control after undergoing a brain surgery at Jaslok Hospital in Mumbai. A bank accountant by profession, George Johnston had been fighting ...

New Robotic Device can Help Perform Brain Surgery Via Cheek

Researchers at Vanderbilt University are currently developing a new robotic device that can reach remote regions of the brain through the cheek. Currently doctors have to drill a hole into the skulls of certain epilepsy patients in order to ...

IV Acetaminophen Shown Safe and Effective in Craniotomy Patients

Pain management in craniotomy patients is difficult, shows study. Physicians avoid prescribing narcotics - typically the medication of choice for pain management - because they impair the evaluation of brain function. Postoperative nausea and ...

Brain Surgery Specialist Says Schumacher Will Have to Adjust to New Life Should He Survive His Head Injuries

Even as Michael Schumacher continues his fight to come out of coma following a skiing accident, a brain surgery specialist said that if the Formula One legend was to survive the head injuries, he will be a completely different person. The ...

Rare Brain Surgery to Treat Boy With Excessive Sex Hormones Conducted in Puducherry

Doctors at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer) in Puducherry have conducted a rare brain surgery in a three-year old boy who had premature puberty. The parents of the boy noticed abnormal changes in ...

Brain Surgery Evolutions

Fast-paced lives have increased the number of people suffering from lifestyle-related diseases. Accidents and trauma cases are now flooding the hospital, which makes development an urgent need of the hour. Thanks to the millions of ...

Brain Surgery for Certain Forms of Epilepsy Has Long-terms Benefits

New research by neurologists at Henry Ford Hospital shows brain surgery for certain difficult forms of epilepsy often reduces or eliminates seizures for more than 15 years after the procedure. Drugs are not effective in controlling seizures in ...

Rapid Evaluation for Swallowing and Voice Problems After Brain Surgery is a Must, Say Experts

Early post-surgical assessment for trouble chewing and swallowing food among patients who have had benign tumors removed from the base of the brain is being recommended by Johns Hopkins experts. Such early assessments, they say, may minimize ...

Rare Awake Brain Surgery Cures Kolkata Girl's Brain Tumor

Eighteen-year-old Moubani Karmakar in Kolkata, India, underwent awake Craniotomy, a rare surgery performed by keeping the patient awake. The procedure has cured her of the brain tumor. Awake Craniotomy is performed in the same manner as ...

Brain Surgery Not Being Widely Used for Epilepsy Treatment

A new study by researchers from University of California, San Francisco has revealed that doctors are not opting for brain surgery in treating uncontrolled epilepsy even though studies have shown that they can be very effective. The study, ...

Steady-Handed Robot for Brain Surgery Developed

The EU has revealed that neurosurgeons may one day get help in operating rooms from a robot with movements 10 times steadier than the human hand to perform delicate brain surgeries. The European Commission touted the EU-funded ROBOCAST project ...