The 12 patients involved in the study , published in nature today1 , suffered severe , treatment-resistant epilepsy , and were awaiting neurosurgery at the ucla ronald reagan medical center in los angeles to remove the brain tissue responsible for initiating seizures .
Australia at the time was without enough doctors with highly sophisticated training in neurosurgery .
澳大利亚那时缺乏足够的神经外科医生和高度复杂的神经外科培训。
Carson went from a poor student to an honors one , going on to medical school and becoming director of pediatric neurosurgery at johns hopkins hospital at age 33 .
Now says fernando gomez-pinilla a neurosurgery professor at the university of california los angeles it 's known that exercise increases levels of some molecules in the brain that are very important for cognition .
The vice-chairman for innovation and technology in the neurosurgery dept.at the stanford university school of medicine , adler has authored more than 180 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters during his career .