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  • @xbelladancerellax the Brain has no pain receptors

  • 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.

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  • its a good video during brain operation...

  • @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.

  • @walkandlookup just a local I believe

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

  • 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.

  • @VulcanXL They numb you lol

  • 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?

  • no the patient is highly sedated

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