Virtual reality gives patients a special pre-surgery 'tour'
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Virtual reality allows neurosurgery patients to ‘tour’ their own brains
Over the past year, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital has been pioneering a virtual reality technology that enables pediatric patients, and their parents, to “tour” their brains before surgery. Special correspondent Cat Wise reports on how this 3-D platform may help young patients with epilepsy and brain tumors reduce their fears and anxieties before surgery, and maybe even yield an "epiphany."
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Virtual reality gives patients a special pre-surgery 'tour'
Clip: 1/10/2019 | 6m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Over the past year, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital has been pioneering a virtual reality technology that enables pediatric patients, and their parents, to “tour” their brains before surgery. Special correspondent Cat Wise reports on how this 3-D platform may help young patients with epilepsy and brain tumors reduce their fears and anxieties before surgery, and maybe even yield an "epiphany."
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The many scientists whose work is stalled due to shutdown
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Clip: 1/10/2019 | 3m 42s | With the government shutdown, American scientific progress is disrupted (3m 42s)
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Clip: 1/9/2019 | 7m 41s | Panetta: Shutdown is 'punishing innocent people' (7m 41s)
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