Learning to Control Your Mind: The First Procedure

Self-Brain Surgery School starts today

One of the first procedures we learn in neurosurgical training is the brain biopsy.

It’s important, because in order to know the nature of something we see on our patient’s MRI scan, we have to have a piece of tissue for the pathologist to examine. We don’t want to do invasive surgery to remove a spot and then find out it wasn’t necessary. So, when we se…