LONDON -- Seeing a patient stay awake during brain surgery isn't just something you see on your favorite medical TV drama. It happens more than you think. Most recently, it happened in London at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No, this is not an episode from House, MD. This is very much a real scenario – and one, that might question your definition of ‘miraculous’. In a remarkable blend of medical advances and music, a ...

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 ...

After brain surgery, tremor-stricken banjo legend is picking again. Oct. 3, 2008 — -- Eddie Adcock's fast picking and unconventional style made him world famous as a bluegrass banjo innovator.

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 ...