Studied for years by UTMB neurosurgeon Dr. Pablo Valdes, this approach to brain surgery relies on fluorescent markers that ultimately help surgeons more easily identify what matter needs to be removed, versus what needs to stay.

Reba Smith-Weeden has a condition called essential tremor that prevented her from carving the Thanksgiving turkey or enjoying a cup of coffee. But thanks to the UTMB Health Neurosciences team and Deep Brain Stimulation the shaking has stopped.

Research in recent years has led to new treatments for epilepsy and movement disorders that are now available at UTMB Health.

Spinal stenosis, a very common neurosurgical condition, can be associated with spondylosis, ligamentous hypertrophy, and disc osteophyte complexes. Stenosis often presents as myelopathy (compression on the spinal cord) or radiculopathy (compression on the nerve root).