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 ...

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 ...

Italians are known for their cooking, and their penchant for infusing olives and olive oil into most of their dishes. Hardly a fortnight ago, they brought olives into the surgical theatre too, where ...

Her tumour was located in Wernicke’s area, the part of the brain responsible for speech comprehension and language processing ...

A dad-of-five had a tumor the size of a kiwi removed from his brain while he was awake – and played the guitar during the operation. Paul Welsh-Dalton, 44, suffered with aphasia and headaches, and was ...

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 ...

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, ...