I'm a brain scientist, and as a brain scientist,

In 1994, Nayef Al Rodhan became a fellow at the department of neurosurgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard Medical School, where he worked on the study of neuropeptides, molecular genetics, and neuronal regeneration.

I did brain surgery in the middle of the night.

Draining for hydrocephaly patients (which affects neurosurgery services)

Then the brain's connection to the cranial nerves and spinal cord are severed, and the brain is lifted out of the skull for further examination.

The pulp receives nutrition through the blood vessels, and sensory nerves carry signals back to the brain.

With Henry Brem, now the chief of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, we thought we could use these polymers to deliver drugs locally in the treatment of brain cancer.

I'm a brain scientist, and as a brain scientist, I'm actually interested in how the brain learns, and I'm especially interested in a possibility of making our brains smarter, better and faster.

The Cold War and the Cold Shoulder

And we're working on it, but it takes brain scientists to come and to get together, people that work in the entertainment software industry, and publishers, so these are not people that usually meet every day, but it's actually doable, and we are on the right track.

like brains and nerves and stuff like that?

In 1993, on a fellowship from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, he joined the department of neurosurgery at the Yale University School of Medicine as a fellow in epilepsy surgery and molecular neuroscience under the direction of Dennis Spencer.

Is it dental surgery you want? General surgery you want?

Dr. Wittmann continued research on the Wittmann Patch as a Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

So this is gallbladder surgery.

This is a cancer surgery.

A heart surgery.

He might need surgery

That's such a big surgery.

You then performed surgery upon the plaintiff?

Quyen Nguyen Color coded surgery

Narrator Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery.

So she chose to have facial surgery.

How convenient. Plastic surgery?

The hell it isn't. I'm a surgeon.

And the purpose of that part of the brain? To inhibit, to inhibit the rest of the brain.

This is the front of the brain, the back of brain with the spinal cord hanging down, and this is how it would be positioned inside of my head.

Healing the Depressed Brain

Not the brain specialist?

And about the brain!

Brains and kidneys and tripe.

The house surgeon had to operate.

Yes! Have my brain cut.

So as I said, neurosurgery comes from a long tradition.

I understand. It can happen if you're in a surgery, don't worry.

I had a major heart operation.

You forget, I got to operate on your face tomorrow.

So we feel sometimes that the brain is deterministic, the brain determines who we're going to be.

A brain tumor. Nice!

Brain malfunctions all the time.

Reconstructive surgery is one method of treatment.

Who gets safe surgery and who doesn't?

And we have better than surgery results in breasts.

And your face is pretty as it is... so don't get surgery on it.

We can say there are patients who choose to have facial surgery