UCLA Neurosurgery

UCLA Neurosurgeon Dr. Neil Martin uses the advanced technology of robotics while interacting with patients in the ICU.

Dr. Nadar Pouratian - Director, Neurosurgical Movement Disorders, UCLA Medical Center - is featured on Extra: Life Changers segment on breakthroughs in stimulating parts of the brain to cope with depression.

UCLA Neurosurgeon Dr. Neil Martin shows the technological advances that aid doctors in diagnosing and performing brain surgery.

UCLA Neurosurgeon Dr. Neil Martin uses 3D imaging and other advanced technology to assist him in removing a brain tumor.

Fox News reports on UCLA Neurosurgeon Dr. Linda Liau's study documenting the removal of Robert Gibbs' brain tumor and using the tumor cells, create a vaccine to aid his body in fighting the cancer cells.

UCLA Neurosurgeon Dr. Linda Liau is featured on Extra: Life Changers segment explaining the benefits of tissue banking and the progress in personalized medicine.

ABC News features Dr. Linda Liau, UCLA Neurosurgeon, discussing the advances of the Brain Cancer Vaccine and it's affects on Glioblastoma.

Dr. Gary Mathern, Pediatric Neurosurgeon at the UCLA Medical Center in LA, performs a hemispherectomy on Sasha Sabet, removing the right hemisphere of her brain to stop the seizures.

Dr. Christopher Giza, UCLA Pediatric Neurosurgeon, featured on Fox News, discusses the dangers of concussions in youth due to sports related injuries.

An article in the July 18 Washington Post about mild traumatic brain injury (concussions) and post-traumatic stress disorder among military personnel referenced the work and research of David Hovda, professor of neurosurgery and director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center, who is serving as an adviser to the Pentagon on traumatic brain injury and the effect on soldiers of repeated concussions.

Experts on brain injury, including Dr. David Hovda who directs the Brain Injury Research Center at UCLA, are trying to take what they've learned on the football field and apply it to the battlefield.

Fernando Gómez-Pinilla, Ph.D., a professor of neurosurgery and physiological science at UCLA, discusses his research of the effects of diet on mood disorders.