As you’d expect, Neurosurgeons, the brain doctors, also get paid close to $400,000 per year. So why mention plastic surgeons before them? Because it’s a lot more lucrative and profitable these days. Plastic s
Armed with this information, neurosurgeons will be in a much better position to help people with depression, and deep brain stimulation is more likely to work, says Sheth. Back online John was the first trial volunteer to undergo the procedure. Sheth and his colleagues put him under general ...
My genetic make-up was of special concern years ago when my husband and I were deciding whether to have children. We’d gone to a genetic counselor to find out the chances of our children inheriting my mother’sschizophrenia. Fortunately, they were quite low. The counselor could tell us ...
It’s just that he hadn’t planned on doing the writing part until much later in his career. Many months after his diagnosis, when he could no longer work as a neurosurgeon, Paul chose to use his remaining time to write a memoir that, among other things, explores living and dying from...
an area of the primary somatosensory cortex lights up; if you feel a pain in your lower back, a different part becomes active. Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield charted this brain region and produced a ‘map’ that reflects the human body overlaid on the brain (see illustration below). It was ...
Amid rumors that Apple is working on a non-invasive glucose monitoring system for Apple Watch, researchers are using cutting edge software science to prove the heart rate sensors in current-generation wearables can successfully detect early signs of diab
What has compelledZama's readers most, over the decades, is its structure: both the overall structure of the whole and the calibrated, rhythmic intensity of each line, written, said Roberto Bolaño, with the "steady pulse of a neurosurgeon." Recreating that structure in a film, as Lucrecia...
A few years ago Marcellino, 33, left the Bay Area, and is now in the final stages of retraining to be a neurosurgeon. He stresses he is no expert on addiction, but says he has picked up enough in his medical training to know that technologies can affect the same neurologica...
A neurosurgeon. Huntington’s Disease. A home invasion. A poem. (The poem nestled deep within the plot sparks a crucial turning point. It also happens to be one of my lifelong favorites.) State of Wonder,by Ann Patchett “She was not terrified that the patient would die or she would lo...
In addition to Flinker, the study's authors are Robert Knight, director of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley; neurosurgeons Edward Chang, Nicholas Barbaro and neurologist Heidi Kirsch of the University of California, San Francisco; and Nathan Crone, a neurologist at Johns Hopkin...