#363 ‒ A new frontier in neurosurgery: restoring brain function with brain-computer interfaces, advancing glioblastoma care, and new hope for devastating brain diseases | Edward Chang, M.D.

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Edward is the chair of Neurosurgery, a UCSF, and a leading innovator in functional neurosurgery and brain computer interface. Edward's work bridges the operating room, the research lab, and the engineering bench to restore speech and movement for patients who have lost these traits. In this episode, we discuss how modern neurosurgery evolved, dramatically reducing collateral damage and recovery time. What happens during awake brain surgery, why the brain feels no pain, how real-time mapping protects language and motor function, and the split second decisions surgeons make at the edge of the eloquent cortex, breakthroughs in brain computer interfaces, neural engineering's next frontier, fully implantable wireless brain computer interfaces, and functional electrical stimulation systems that may bypass damaged nerves to restore

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