Because it is a less invasive procedure, patient recovery time is much shorter. An artist’s rendition of the craniotomy technique. “We believe the use of MRI-guided laser surgery will change the face of epilepsy treatment and provide a life-changing option for many epilepsy surgery ...
Robotic navigated laser craniotomy for depth electrode implantation in epilepsy surgery: experiences in a cadaver lab and in-vivo non-recovery studydoi:10.1016/j.bas.2021.100826F. WinterMedizinische Universität Wien, Neurosurgery, Vienna, AustriaT. Wilken...
Alfred Brain Program Director Professor Terry O’Brien said LITT was now “first-line therapy in the leading epilepsy surgery and brain tumor treatment centers in the US and Europe”. “It is less invasive, with shorter length of stay and quicker post-operative recovery, as well as reduced ri...
A new surgical technique calledLaser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT)that uses a laser to target and ablate seizure-causing brain tissue precisely was approved, reducing recovery time compared to traditional surgery. Although it was used off-label earlier,Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS), which involv...
“This newer procedure, using the robotic arm, is less scary for patients and their families because it is all done through electrodes in a controlled manner. It is also minimally invasive with an amazingly fast recovery time, compared to an open skull surgery,” says Dr. Andrade. ...
After at least a week of recovery, a small craniotomy was performed over the ipsilateral hemisphere (−2 mm posterior, −2 mm lateral to the bregma—marked with a permanent marker during the previous surgery) under isoflurane anesthesia and mice were transferred to a floating ball where...
68 The same investigators carried out time lapse imaging of fluorescence recovery after laser bleach on astrocytes loaded with 6-carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester, to assess functional gap junctional coupling in the cultures. Gap junction coupling was more pronounced in the parahippocampal (...
“Not enough people are being referred for surgery,” Hiraldo-Delgado opines, noting that about a third of epilepsy patients cannot control their condition by medication alone. Traditional epilepsy surgery, while still the most effective treatment in many situations, involves the affected part of the...
Chronic treatment with VPA, by reducing seizures, was able to rebalance TrkB to control levels favoring a physiological redistribution of BDNF between MS neurons and FS interneurons with a concomitant recovery of striatal plasticity. Our results provide the first indication that BDNF is involved in ...
Following recovery from status epilepticus, rats were video-monitored (40 h/week) for frank spontaneous seizures. Brain fixation and slicing Rats were deeply anesthetized with urethane (1.5 mg/kg; i.p.) prior to intra-aortal fixation with 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA) in a 0.1 M ...