University of California, Los Angeles. Reviews current and new techniques for treatment of brain technologies using the concept of minimal invasion. For practitioners. 41 contributors, 32 U.S. DNLM: Brain.
Antonio De Salles, MD, PhD
Dr. De Salles was born in Brazil in a family of medical doctors, professors and writers. He decided to become a medical doctor at age 6. Brain surgery became a passion during his medical school years, for him the brain was the most fascinating organ, at a time when heart and other organ transplants were in the news as the main surgical achievements of his generation.
Since his training as a Neurosurgeon in Brazil, where Dr De Salles saw the amazing results of Psychosurgery, he came to the United States where he studied at Medical College of Virginia and at Harvard University specific techniques to manipulate the brain function electrically, chemically and through ionizing radiation. Again into Psychosurgery, in Sweden Dr. De Salles recalled his early love for modification of brain function to improve psychiatric patients.
Bringing his worldwide neurosurgery learning to UCLA, he became a professor of neurosurgery and a scientist. He has worked in Los Angeles for more than 20 years developing techniques to treat brain disorders with minimalistic surgery. He has surgically treated over one thousand patients with functional diseases of the brain such as epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, depression, dystonia, variety of tremors, central pain and more than 8,000 patients with brain or spine tumors.
During his 30 years of academic neurosurgery, Dr. De Salles authored hundreds scientific articles and four academic neurosurgery books. Now Dr. De Salles presents his first science fiction novel and thriller "Why Fly Over the Cuckoo's Nest? Psychosurgery in my Brain Please!".
It was written to bring public awareness of modern brain surgery using neuromodulation to improve human behavior.
It is an easy reading for the layperson understand the brain function and the importance of brain interventions to enhance human life.
