Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Unexpected cognitive deteriorations in epilepsy

In severe epilepsies, surgical intervention is often the only remedy—usually with great success. While neuropsychological performance can recover in the long term after successful surgery, on rare occasions, unexpected ...

Health

The effect of sleep deprivation on surgical performance

New research from the School of Medicine at Trinity investigating the effect of sleep deprivation on surgical performance has found that surgeons were already sleep deprived before their on-call shifts and were even more ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Mental imagery doesn't improve surgeon performance

(HealthDay) -- Mental imagery (MI) training does not result in an improvement in objective surgical assessment of novice gynecological surgeons performing vaginal hysterectomies (VHs), but does correlate with improvements ...