 I am Dr. K. M. Bhopana, consultant neurosurgeon at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. I head the department of neurosurgery. My special interests are in pediatric neurosurgery, epilepsy surgery, cerebrovascular surgery and tumor neurosurgery. At Manipal Hospital, we have one of the oldest modern neurosurgical departments and we have been helping over 1,200 cases every year for almost the last three decades. We believe in using the latest technology and techniques and our advanced operative training to optimize outcomes in the most challenging of brain and spinal neurosurgical disorders. Hi, I am Dr. Manjinal. I am a consultant neurologist and a movement disorder specialist. I practice at Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road, Bangalore. We do provide exclusive clinical services for Parkinson's disease and related various movement disorders. We believe in teamwork. We have exclusively DBS team comprising a neurosurgeon, a psychologist, psychiatrist and physical medicine rehabilitation expert. We also provide botulinum toxin therapy for various movement disorders with an excellent outcome. We believe in team practice for better comprehensive health care. Hello everybody, I am Dr. Satvik Arshati. I am a neurosurgeon at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. As a neurosurgeon, my job entails working on various complex brain and spine pathologies. I also subspecialize in endoscopic skull-based surgery and D-brain stimulation for movement disorders, especially Parkinson's disease. D-brain stimulation is, or DBS as we call it, is used for various movement disorders like essential tremors, dystonias, but the most common indication is for Parkinson's disease. The technique involves placing electrodes in certain specific areas of the brain and stimulating them. Sometimes the targets are as small as 0.2 cc in a 1400 cc of brain. This requires us to be very precise in our planning and extremely precise during surgery too. We have various specialized equipments like stereotactic frames with sub-millimeter accuracy and computer neuro-navigation systems which help us in achieving this accuracy and being very precise during this surgery. DBS helps patients in controlling their symptoms and thereby helping them improve their quality of life. I am happy to note that in Manipal, we have been able to help these patients get better and improve their overall quality of life. I am Dr. Ullas Acharya, working as neuro-radiologist here in Manipal Hospital. My area of expertise is both in neuro-imaging as well as neuro-interventions. We as a team are well equipped to handle both emergency as well as selective procedures. In the diagnostic setup, we have state-of-the-art machines including 1.1.5 and 1.3 Tesla MRI machines. So in the 3 Tesla MRI machine, we have an in-bore ambient experience technology which helps to comfort the patient as the scan is going around. As well as this helps even for the pediatric patients because they have different themes of cartoons going around which soothes the effect and hence we can acquire very good images with their cooperation. Also in addition, we have the state-of-the-art CT machine which we have is 128 slice CT through which we are able to do good vascular imaging. We have advanced imaging technologies such as the depiction of the chemical constituents of the brain tumors using MR spectroscopy as well as to grade the tumors using MR perfusion techniques also helping in pre-operative imaging in the form of having fiber tracking and the functional activations of the brain in relation to the tumor. So these finally help us to help these neurosurgeons to treat the tumors much better. So in the intervention setup, we have two machines. One is the two cath labs where we perform both elective as well as emergency procedures. We have a very good team which does emergency stroke procedures where we enter through the artery into the area of the block to remove the block using special stents or aspirator catheters as well as we do different types of procedures such as stenting the angioplasties as well as the treatment of aneurysms, AVMs, pre-operative tumor embolizations. So as a whole, in the neurovascular team we have both diagnostic as well as the intervention setup. Hi, I am Dr. Praveen, I am a gynecologist working as a consultant neurosurgeon in Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. My areas of interest is minimally invasive brain and spine surgery, skull-based surgery which includes basically in the endoscopic neurosurgery. With endoscope we can treat various disorders. Why endoscopic or minimally invasive brain surgery is we can treat the various disorders with less disturbance to the normal important structures of the brain and faster recovery, less pain. Some of the areas of the brain such as skull-based where you can with the routine method is difficult to approach, we can do with endoscope. What are the conditions we can treat with endoscope is pituitary tumors, cranioferringomas, meningomas and caudomas and some of the fungal granulomas. And of course another disorder is CSF rhinorrhea which is nothing but the brain fluid which is leaking from the front part of the skull-based where it can address through the nose and seal of that leak. And another important structure in disorder we can do with endoscopic neurosurgery is hypotensive deep ganglionic bleeds. There is nothing but those who have a high blood pressure which have a bleed inside the deeper part of the brain which can be very well addressed with endoscope and less retraction. So the recovery is faster and less damage to the brain. And of course dealing with some of the new born children they are born with already fused skull bones or something called as craniosynostosis which if detected early which can be dealt with endoscopic surgery where we make a smaller incision and cut that bone which is fused early and use a postoperatively helmet to mold the shape of the head. And other things is a minimally misused spine surgery where you can do a lot of disorders like dyskectomy fusions and complex craniovertible junction surgeries without much problem and patient recovers faster with lesser pain.