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When someone operates on your brain, we do awake surgery all the time. True or false with a brain surgeon? You can't talk while someone operates on your brain. That's actually false. You can talk when someone operates on your brain. We do awake surgery all the time, especially when you have to protect the speech area.

If your brain is exposed, you feel pain. That's false. The brain itself is completely numb, so it has no receptors for pain or sensation, but the covering is very sensitive, so the dura is very sensitive. If a brain tumor is found, it is automatically cancer. That's false. In fact, the vast majority of tumors that we find are benign,

and on the surface of the brain, something called a meningioma. Does a CT scan rule out a stroke? False. A CT scan can't always rule out a stroke. It can rule out a hemorrhagic or bleeding type of stroke. In fact, often it's normal for an ischemic or blockage type of stroke, and only then do you do further investigations and start treatment if it's normal.

Okay, so like an MRI head and things like that? or a CT angiogram with some contrast.