Word: neurosurgeon
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...Brain surgery can now be performed with greater precision, using ultrasonic vibrations (a million cycles per second, or 50 times faster than the highest audible note) instead of the neurosurgeon's knife. University of Illinois researchers have focused the beam down to one-twentieth of an inch in diameter-the thickness of a pencil lead...
...Neurosurgeon Jefferson disposed of some medical fallacies, e.g., falling asleep has nothing to do with changes in synapses*- in the nervous system, or a shortage of blood in the brain, or accumulation of lactic acid. Neither is there, as some used to think, a sleep center in the brain...
...first the doctors could not be sure of the reason, either. It might be the petitmal form of epilepsy, or a brain tumor. At Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Neurosurgeon William H. Sweet tried the electroencephalogram ("brainwave machine") and got indications of a local disorder, but nothing definite enough to justify major brain surgery. Another standard test (in itself fairly drastic), involving the injection of air into the brain cavities, showed nothing. Not long ago Holly Hyde would have had to wait for her condition to worsen, imperiling her understanding of language and perhaps endangering her life, before the doctors...
...Swedish Method. Dr. Schutte, a hormone specialist, discussed the case with Neurosurgeon Jorge A. Picaza. They decided that Senora R. might be relieved by a drastic operation developed by two Swedish doctors: removal of the pituitary gland. The Swedes thought it offered promise in some forms of cancer...
Nobody knows precisely how many cases there are like Billy's, but they number hundreds of thousands. Famed Neurosurgeon Tracy Jackson Putnam estimates the number of brain-injured persons in the U.S. at as many as 2,500,000. Of these, he says, 13% have cerebral palsy (in which the injury to the brain involves the motor centers), and for them, much is being done. Perhaps 30% are so mentally retarded (often because of birth injuries) that they can be given little but affectionate care...