It was a series of everyday words the patient spoke — butterfly, hello, turtle, 20, banana — that told surgeons and 2,000 onlookers, they were in the right spot. On Tuesday morning, the staff at ...

A dad-of-five had a tumor the size of a kiwi removed from his brain while he was awake – and played the guitar during the operation. Paul Welsh-Dalton, 44, suffered with aphasia and headaches, and was ...

At the end of the operation, the neurosurgeon declared that he had never before encountered a patient so calm and at ease during an awake brain surgery. When the living and breathing body of a 71-year ...

Josh, now 27, told Newsweek about the horrifying ordeal that began with muscle‑cramp‑like symptoms.

Awake craniotomy remains at the forefront of neurosurgical innovation, allowing for the resection of brain tumours adjacent to critical functional areas while minimising neurological deficits. This ...