It’s not every day you get to watch someone perform brain surgery, but for actual brain surgeons, I’m sure this is something they see all the time. What makes this story different is the fact that, this time, the brain surgeons got to have a little musical performance during the surgery, courtesy of the person they were operating on! You can read the whole story at the Tennessean, who also scored the awesome video you see below you.

It’s really an amazing story. Adcock, who has played banjo since age 7, developed what are called essential tremors in 1990. It’s the most common form of tremor and affects fine motor movements, like playing music. The way to treat it is called deep brain stimulation, and it involves implanting electrodes in the brain to control or block out the tremors via electronic impulses. In order to figure out if you’re blocking the right area of the brain, the patient needs to be awake. In Adcock’s situation, it also required him to be picking away while the neurosurgeons were sawing off the top of his skull.

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