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Preserving critical language regions during epilepsy surgery

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Preserving Critical Language Regions During Epilepsy Surgery

Dr. Jeffrey Binder is undertaking pioneering research on potential side effects of epilepsy surgery.

Dr Lee Reimaging Care

Neuroscience

Reimagining Care: Max C. Lee, MD

In the wake of the global pandemic, MCW faculty, staff and students are reimagining how they provide care and services.

Meet Nathan

Neuroscience

Meet Nathan

Nathan Zwagerman, MD, specializes in removing meningiomas and other brain tumors using a rare technique.

MCW team improves treatment of cancer that spreads to the brain

Cancer

Brain Invaders

MCW team improves the treatment of cancer that spreads to the brain.

Joseph Bovi, MD and Jennifer Connelly, MD

Community Front Door

Reimagining Care: Joseph Bovi, MD and Jennifer Connelly, MD

In the wake of the global pandemic, MCW faculty, staff and students are reimagining how they provide care and services.

Holly Maize, second year MCW pharmacy student with Dr. Bruce A. Kaufman, MCW pediatric neurosurgeon

Education Innovation

Paying Care Forward

After overcoming severe health challenges as a child, MCW pharmacy student Holly Maize's life has come full circle.

Meet Bryon Riesch

Neuroscience

Dreaming of a Cure

Meet Bryon, a man inspired to transform spinal cord injury.

This Is Lucas

125th Anniversary

Lucas' Story

An accident left him a quadriplegic; today he has use of his hands again.

Dr. Marc Lazzaro and Dr. Ann Helms discuss care of an acute stroke patient by members of MCW's stroke, neurointervention and critical care team in the department of neurology.

Neuroscience

Where "Time is Brain"

MCW's specialized and extensively trained neurointerventional team provide comprehensive care to complex stroke patients at Froedtert...

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Neuroscience

A Young Milwaukeean's Aspirations to Fight Alzheimer's

Seventh-grader Aremontae Rawls knows exactly what he wants to be when he grows up. "I want to be a neurosurgeon."

Protecting the Brain

Neuroscience

Protecting the Brain

MCW scientists are among the only people in the world using this technique to fight Alzheimer's, Huntington's, ALS and Parkinson's.

Medical College of Wisconsin

BAM! MCW researchers are using crash simulations to make traveling safer for you and your family.