Brain surgery for mental illness is making a comeback. But these are not the ice-pick-through-the-eye-socket psychosurgeries Story by Sharon Kirkey • 47m ...

Brain surgery for mental illness sounds like a drastic measure ... people having hypothetical “stones” of madness surgically extracted from their brains. Human skulls dating back to the Mesolithic ...

Before surgery, a metal frame was attached to Harry Forestell’s head to keep it still during an MRI scan. During surgery, the frame was bolted to the surgical table. (Submitted by Harry Forestell) ...

The surgery, now known as a hemispherectomy, was ultimately abandoned as a viable treatment for brain tumours. But a decade later, it was attempted on a 16-year-old girl at Toronto General Hospital.

There’s just one rather technical catch: prior to the study, surgeons first needed to cut a small window into the patient’s ...

Toronto neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Cusimano, who pioneered what has become an international standard in neurosurgery, is once again breaking new ground, becoming the first surgeon in Canada to use a ...

In a four-hour procedure, Dr. Sean Barry and Dr. Adrienne Weeks removed a glioblastoma from a female patient's brain Thursday, guided by a drug called 5-ALA and a fluorescent light.

The surgery seems to have settled the dyskinesia in my upper body. It makes me cry – being able to sit still. When we drive home, I clock under 1,000 steps for the entire day.

Teddi Mellencamp is sharing an update on her brain surgery. On Wednesday, Feb. 26, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, 43, posted on Instagram after having four brain tumors removed last week.