That kind of information helps doctors tailor tests to a patient's particular needs. That means surgeons are coming into the operating room with far more information about a specific patient's brain. For example, doctors have long used simple tests such as asking a patient to name what they're seeing in pictures to make sure language ability is preserved.Д«ut he said that doctors are now able to map the patient's brain activity in great detail before the surgery using an imaging technique called functional MRI.

Mahon said the basic features of an 'awake craniotomy' - the type of brain surgery where patients are awake in order to avoid damage to critical brain areas - have remained largely unchanged for decades. The surgery was a success, Ashkan said: 'We managed to remove over 90 percent of the tumour, including all areas suspicious of aggressive activity, while retaining full function of her left hand.' 'The thought of losing my ability to play was heart-breaking but, being a musician himself, Prof. 'The violin is my passion I've been playing since I was 10 years old,' Turner said in the hospital press release. Waking her up during surgery then allowed doctors to monitor whether those parts were sustaining damage. 'Prior to Dagmar's operation they spent two hours carefully mapping her brain to identify areas that were active when she played the violin and those responsible for controlling language and movement,' the hospital statement said. My job these days is playing the violin,' ' she said, making a motion of pushing down violin strings with her left hand.ДЄshkan, an accomplished pianist, and his colleagues came up with a plan to keep the hand's functions intact. 'And I'm just like, 'Oh, hang on, this is my most important part. Late last year, doctors found that it had become more aggressive and the violinist decided to have surgery to remove it. Turner, 53, learned that she had a slow-growing tumor in 2013. 'We knew how important the violin is to Dagmar, so it was vital that we preserved function in the delicate areas of her brain that allowed her to play,' Keyoumars Ashkan, a neurosurgeon at King's College Hospital, said in a press release. The King's College Hospital surgeons woke her up in the middle of the operation in order to ensure they did not compromise parts of the brain necessary for playing the violin, such as parts that control precise hand movements and coordination. In a video from the surgery, the violinist moves her bow up and down as surgeons behind a plastic sheet work to remove her brain tumor.

The music came from the patient on the operating table. King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust/Screen shot by NPRДЄs doctors in London performed surgery on Dagmar Turner's brain, the sound of a violin filled the operating room. 'I've been playing since I was 10 years old.' 'The violin is my passion,' she said in a statement. Dagmar Turner recently played her violin during brain surgery in London.

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