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A neurosurgeon has described her shock at pulling out a live worm from a woman's brain during surgery. Dr Hari Priya Bandi was operating on a 64-year-old patient in Canberra last year when she ...

Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, mapped the motor cortex using mild electric current. Later, around 1870, Hitzig teamed up with another doctor, Gustav Fritsch. Setting up a makeshift ...