During some awake brain surgeries, doctors ask patients to talk, count or sing while specific brain areas are stimulated. The ...

Doctors may ask patients to sing during awake brain surgery to map critical brain areas and protect speech, movement and ...

A rare look at brain surgery with the patient alert and awake at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven. Anthony Munoz has a brain tumor that is not cancerous. Neurosurgeon Dr. Jennifer Moliterno, ...

LONDON – The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...

A teenage girl has become the world’s youngest known patient to have conscious brain surgery to treat a rare blood vessel condition. Matilda Phillips, known as “Tilly,” was 15 years old when she ...

LONDON — Music met medicine when a patient played a clarinet solo as she underwent brain surgery for Parkinson's disease and proved that the treatment was working in real time. Denise Bacon, 65, saw ...