An imaging technique that generates images of critical white-matter tracts in the brain that must be avoided and protected during surgery. White-matter tracts are electrical connectors between different parts of the brain.
Ameer's friends noticed the weight loss, and they kept asking him about it. Was he OK? Ameer wasn’t concerned at first. Then he began to notice that he couldn’t see people approaching him from the side. His peripheral vision was deteriorating. The third symptom landed him in the hospital. After getting up unusually late one morning and putting his shirt on backwards, he suffered a seizure. “Something was clearly wrong, and I knew I had to sit down,” Ameer recalls