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August 26, 2017 | 07:49 am

Patient plays saxophone while surgeons remove brain tumor

A team of surgeons, brain and cognitive science researchers, and music theorists worked together to preserve a musician’s ability to experience music, ending in a remarkable saxophone solo on the operating table.

topics: Bradford Mahon, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Department of Neuroscience, Eastman School of Music, Elizabeth Marvin, featured-post-side, Medical Center, Web Pilcher,
Science & Technology
August 11, 2017 | 03:06 pm

Student work opens the brain to help surgeons remove tumors

Brain research does not take a summer vacation, and neither does Magdalena Granados ’19. The McNair Scholar is working on “awake language mapping” research designed to help neurosurgeons operate with greater precision.

topics: Bradford Mahon, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, research finding, Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, School of Arts and Sciences, undergraduate research,
Science & Technology
July 26, 2017 | 08:40 am

Surviving a stroke propels career in brain research

In July 2005, as a high school senior, Frank Garcea suffered what could have been a deadly stroke during soccer practice. Today, after receiving his doctorate at Rochester, he researches how the brain recovers from injury.

topics: Bradford Mahon, Center for Visual Science, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Edward Vates, School of Arts and Sciences, UR Medicine,
Science & Technology
December 10, 2014 | 09:29 pm

New imaging technique helps predict how vision recovers after brain tumor removal

An interdisciplinary team of University neuroscientists and neurosurgeons has used a new imaging technique to show how the human brain heals itself in just a few weeks following surgical removal of a brain tumor.

topics: Bradford Mahon, brain injury, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine and Dentistry, tumor, University of Rochester Neurorestoration Institute, vision,