Brain Surgery Refined With New Mapping Technique

Neurosurgeons from the University of California, San Francisco are reporting significant results of a new brain mapping technique that allows for the safe removal of tumors near language pathways in the brain. The technique minimizes brain exposure and reduces the amount of time a patient must be awake during surgery.Perhaps even more profound, the study provides new data that refines scientists’ understanding of how language is organized within the human cortex. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Cancer on January 4th, 2008