The patient is asleep, lying face down on an operating table in OR2 at the University of Utah’s Clinical Neurosciences Center, surrounded by a dozen people who do their jobs with swift efficiency, ...

For some patients, removing brain tissue can help treat OCD and other disorders. But ethical concerns remain Frieda Klotz, Undark Psychiatric neurosurgery, originally known as psychosurgery, involves ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, affecting 3.4 million Americans or 1 in 26 over a lifetime. The hallmark of epilepsy is seizures caused by abnormal bursts of electrical ...

Treating brain diseases is extraordinarily challenging, because drugs often work poorly and implants require risky surgery that can jeopardize critical brain functions. A group at MIT has sought a ...

A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been refining and combining several advanced technologies over the past six years to create a revolutionary platform to treat a ...

CLEVELAND — On April 9, I went into surgery expecting to receive a polymer implant that would replace bone around my left eye socket that previous surgeries had to remove. I would be the second ...

LONDON – The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...