Science news articles about 'invasive brain surgery'

... Surgeons. Duckworth also performs less-invasive brain surgeries on epilepsy patients. In this procedure, Duckworth ... of the skull. Duckworth predicts less-invasive brain surgery will become increasingly common because ...

External magnetic fields or spine implants could provide alternatives to invasive brain surgery.

... -intensity focused ultrasound. This fully non-invasive procedure opens new horizons for neurosurgery and the treatment of different neurological brain ...

... to humans. The experiments range from small procedures such as taking blood and tissue samples to invasive brain surgery and inducing incurable diseases such as Parkinson ...

Medical researchers have completed a pilot study using transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound to treat 10 patients with neuropathic pain.

... Gamma Knife, a non-invasive brain surgery using radiation help OCD sufferers who can't ... in a wheelchair," says Professor Christer Lindquist, a pioneer in the use of a brain surgery technique for people with Obsessive Compulsive ...

... regions without the need for invasive brain surgery, Tyler said. "We have also shown that ultrasound can be used to stimulate synaptic transmission between groups of neurons within ...