Awake Craniotomy

[gadionson1]

its a good video during brain operation...

[antiquesurfer]

i had this procedure in april 2008. I was awake and answering questions, but don't have memory of it. I had a benign meningeoma the size of a tennis ball on my left temporal lobe and partially over the parietal lobe. Went back to work July 2008. Seizures are completely controlled by meds.

[xbelladancerellax]

@antiquesurfer Was it painful? It looks painful and uncomfortable. :(

[MercedesCars454]

@xbelladancerellax the Brain has no pain receptors

[kingcrimson234]

@xbelladancerellax excuse the graphic imagery, but you could remove half of somebodys brain with an ice cream scoop and they would feel nothing. the brain can't feel pain in itself.

[theshiz6]

A seizure is a disturbance of the brain's electrical activity. The surgeons attach electrodes to the brain to control this when the begin a case to ensure that it doesn't happen. Since the brain's electrical activity is monitored via computer, the patient doesn't seize.

[dhamyanthi]

Can someone please answer my question =( I'm wondering why patients don't seize during surgery----I mean, all this poking around the brain---doesn't that irritate the cortex? If so, what do surgeons do to prevent/treat it?

[VulcanXL]

Isn't awake brain surgery painful though?

[walkandlookup]

I'm not a Doctor but I know that the skull/brain area do not have many nerve terminals; so pain in minimum

[combatjm89]

@walkandlookup just a local I believe

[breakinginfinity0]

@VulcanXL Not at all. The scalp area is numbed. The brain itself has no pain receptors; touching it is painless for the recepient. There's evidence to suggest the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians performed them with little to no damage to their patients.

[69Christoballs69]

no the patient is highly sedated

[ZombieKitten100]

@VulcanXL They numb you lol

[iguanaman6969]

memphis thats where im from