London: A nurse engaged in a long battle with depression has become the world's first person to benefit from neurosurgery. Sheila Cook, 62, suffered for more than a decade with debilitating depression which left her suicidal and often unable to feed or clothe herself. She was forced to retire from her job and her husband, a physics researcher, also had to give up his work to take care of her...
Awake craniotomy helps surgeons operate on brain tumors with the patient fully awake. ...
Patient stayed awake and also kept talking to the doctors during the surgery. ...