Is curing Alzheimer's disease an impossible challenge or can we get there? To find out I've been invited to watch brain surgery at the cutting edge of dementia research. I'm wearing scrubs at the back ...

Brain aneurysm surgery is a lifesaving medical procedure that attempts to repair a bulging, weakened area in the wall of a brain artery. A brain aneurysm is a balloon-like bulge in an artery in the ...

Neurosurgeons are typically portrayed in one of two ways in popular culture. One is as a brilliant, if arrogant, boffin. These doctors are intellectuals (it is brain surgery, after all) who have very ...

LONDON, England (WKRC) - A woman with Parkinson's disease played the clarinet while undergoing a brain operation, giving her doctors immediate evidence that the procedure was working. Denise Bacon, 65 ...

When removing cancerous tissue in the brain, neurosurgeons often use "awake brain mapping" to minimize the risk of causing unintended disruptions to a patient's quality of life while removing as much ...