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• Reclaiming Your Brain's Bandwidth: A Neurosurgeon on What Tadac

  Enviado qua as 13:30

  I often feel less like a surgeon and more like a performance optimization specialist for the human brain. A patient will be in my office, physically recovering well, yet he'll complain of a kind of mental static. He can't focus at work. He finds himself zoning out durin...

• Zenegra and the Myth of the Expiration Date: A Neurosurgeon on

  Enviado qua as 13:26

  I had a patient not long ago, a man who, at 78, had more vitality than most men half his age. He was a retired history professor who still audited classes at the local university "to keep the wiring from getting dusty," as he put it. He was in my office for a routine ch...

• Proscar and the Tyranny of the Midnight Alarm Clock

  Enviado qua as 13:19

  I often feel like a cognitive detective. A patient will come to my office months after a successful surgery, but he'll seem... off. His memory is foggy, he's irritable, his answers are slow. My first instinct is to worry about a neurological complication. We run scans, ...

• The Sleeping Dragon in Your Nerves: A Neurosurgeon on Why Acycl

  Enviado qua as 13:14

  You might find it odd that a neurosurgeon spends any time thinking about a common antiviral pill. My world is supposed to be one of titanium screws and complex brain mapping. But the nervous system is a vast, intricate territory, and sometimes the most formidable enemy ...

• The Stubborn Rib: A Neurosurgeon on Medical Myths and the Stori

  Enviado qua as 13:05

  The other day, I was reviewing a complex post-operative MRI of a patient's cervical spine. My world, at that moment, was a grayscale map of vertebrae, nerve roots, and titanium hardware. The patient, a pleasant woman in her 60s, was recovering beautifully. As I was expl...