The patient, who is yet to be named, will be awake through the proceedings so that he is able to speak, allowing the doctors to know if they have accessed the correct area of the brain.

The deep brain stimulation surgery taking place at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio will be shown for two hours in a special called Brain Surgery Live With Mental Floss. The procedure will be captured with two handheld cameras and several robotic cameras in the doctors’ surgical equipment.

The surgery will attempt to treat an essential tremor in Parkinson’s Disease. The show will be hosted by journalist Bryant Gumbel while neurosurgeon Dr. Rahul Jandial, neuroscientist and podcast-host Cara Santa Maria will provide running commentary.

The neurosurgerical team includes Dr. Jonathan Miller, UH Case Medical Center’s director of the Center for Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery, Dr. Benjamin Walter, director of the Parkinson’s & Movement Disorders Center and medical director of UH Case Medical Center’s Deep Brain Stimulation Program and neurosurgeon Dr. Jennifer Sweet.

Scary. Grey’s Anatomy’s MacDreamy has shown us all the possible horrors of open brain surgery and, when it goes wrong, does not look pretty.

[source: time]