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...severe seizure last November confronted the Goes with an agonizing decision: Should Coe have a hemispherectomy? "I never recommend this operation," says Neurosurgeon Charles W. Burklund. "It can only be done on a select few patients. Then, because of the risk, the final decision must be theirs." Says Mrs. Coe: "He didn't want to be a burden and lie in a coma for months." So they agreed that he should have the operation...
...Neurosurgeon Robert W. Rand, but is desirable in cases where ordinary EEGs, made with electrodes placed on the scalp, fail to show clearly the side of the brain in which the misfiring is more pronounced. The deeply implanted electrodes, penetrating the temporal lobe to reach the hippocampus* or even part of the cerebellum, sometimes reveal focal areas of electrical misfiring that surface EEGs have missed entirely. If there is misfiring on only one side, it can usually be detected readily, and relieved by surgical removal of the proper piece of brain tissue. If there is misfiring on both sides, surgeons...
Many physicians now believe that the question "Is this patient dead?" should be answered largely on the basis of his electroencephalogram (EEC or "brain wave") tracings. "Although the heart has been enthroned through the ages as the sacred chalice of life's blood," says Boston's Neurosurgeon Dr. Hannibal Hamlin, "the human spirit is the product of man's brain, not his heart." Yet generally, in legal practice, a pronouncement of death is based only upon the heart's having stopped beating and takes no account of the brain...
Into the Brain. Because the technique involves drastic brain surgery before the electrical current can do its work, explain Psychiatrist Frank Ervin and Boston City Hospital's Neurosurgeon Vernon H. Mark, it is only for the occasional patient whose condition is severe enough to justify the heroic procedure. But it offers more hope of substantial surcease than any other treatment now available...
Treacherous Crash. How elusive damage can be is shown by the case of a garageman, cited by Neurosurgeon Arthur Winter of East Orange, N.J. The young mechanic was hit on the head when a car slipped off a jack, but he did not become unconscious or even dizzy, went right back at work underneath the car. That evening he lost his dinner and seemed dazed. At the hospital, no mark was found on the skull, so surgeons had to drill holes in it and search for the trouble. They discovered a mass of blood and drained it. The mechanic eventually...