{"id":262152,"date":"2017-08-11T15:06:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T19:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=262152"},"modified":"2024-10-29T14:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T18:22:49","slug":"student-work-opens-brain-surgeons-remove-tumors-262152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/student-work-opens-brain-surgeons-remove-tumors-262152\/","title":{"rendered":"Student work opens the brain to help surgeons remove tumors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summer of Research:<\/strong><\/a> Our latest Newscenter series showcases a cross-section of summer research conducted by undergraduates at Rochester and beyond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Magdalena Granados \u201919 hopes one day to do research that could help her grandmother\u2014and 10 million other people worldwide\u2014who suffer from Parkinson\u2019s disease, a movement disorder that affects nerve cells in the brain.<\/p>\n

This summer, her introduction to research as a McNair Scholar<\/a><\/strong> could help a different set of patients: Those with brain tumors that need to be removed with the utmost precision to prevent damage to surrounding tissue.<\/p>\n

The rising junior is working in the lab of Brad Mahon, an assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences and of neurosurgery. Mahon collaborates with Medical Center surgeons on \u201cawake language mapping.\u201d<\/p>\n

This remarkable procedure helps surgeons pinpoint in advance how aggressively they can remove a tumor without causing damage to regions of the brain that support language.<\/p>\n

It works like this:<\/p>\n