Historical milestone in neurosurgery: they remove a tumor in the right hemisphere of the brain with the patient awake

With the help of the Artificial intelligence They have achieved remove a tumor to a patient while her brain was awake. It is a technique that allows playing in areas very complexalmost prohibited until now, to trace the perfect path until reaching the patient’s tumorand.

These created humans digitally, much more precise than the method used up to now, they have allowed something incredible. “Patients have to be operated on awake because each one has a fully setup different,” says neurosurgeon Jesús Martín-Fernández.

One by one, each area of ​​the right hemisphere of the brain, where our emotions are, is stimulated. The patient remains awake during the intervention to verify that she can classify each of those emotions that are seen on a screen.

“When we have previously verified that it does not fail, we know that this region is critical for emotion,” explains the neurosurgeon. In this way they are marked with stickers each critical zone they should not touch to avoid injury.

This method, which seems so simple, is absolutely revolutionary. “What they did for emotions were black and white images, only with cutaways from the eyes, from a test that came out to study with people with autism, but it seemed to me that they were could go a little further“, says the expert who opted to improve it.