Category: Neurosurgery

The split brain

The split brain

Patients with life-threating, intractable epileptic seizures were treated in the past by surgical commissurotomy or cutting of the corpus callosum. This procedure effectively cut off

Stereotactic neurosurgery for Parkinson’s disease

Stereotactic neurosurgery for Parkinson’s disease

Parkinson’s disease is a CNS disorder producing a generalized slowness of movement and resting tremor of the hands. Loss of dopamine- producing neurons in the substantia nigra pars