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This study evaluated predictive models for patient-reported outcomes in elective degenerative spinal surgery with respect to study design, accuracy, reliability, variance, and utility.
Review the use of stereoelectroencephalography as a diagnostic tool for the workup of children with medically refractory epilepsy. Is it safe and effective in the pediatric epilepsy population?
How have advances in neuroimaging and invasive monitoring facilitated patient selection, presurgical evaluation, and surgical planning for young children with drug-resistant epileptic spasms?
This paper explores the challenges and multidisciplinary considerations for the preoperative evaluation and surgical management of infants and toddlers with drug-resistant epilepsy.
While deep brain stimulation may be effective for the treatment of refractory neurodevelopmental conditions in children, it poses unique ethical, social, and legal challenges.
Currently, Haiti has only 4 formally trained neurosurgeons for a population of 10.5 million. This article describes an initiative to create a neurosurgical training program to meet this urgent need.
This article spotlights the Neurosurgery Education and Development Foundation and the work they are doing to provide neurosurgical care and improve neurosurgical education in East Africa.
This paper explores the use of deep brain stimulation as a promising treatment modality for decreasing seizure frequency in patients with refractory epilepsy.
Can neural oscillations serve as potential biomarkers that might be used as feedback signals for controlling adaptive deep brain stimulation in patients with dystonia?
This paper summarizes investigational approaches to closed-loop systems of deep brain stimulation for treatment of movement disorders. Which approaches hold most promise?
In this review, the authors report on their management experience of postoperative cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, an infrequent complication after vestibular schwannoma surgery.
In this article, the authors present their techniques for minimizing venous complications in microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm.
This study investigated the hypothesis that interhemispheric connectivity of the primary motor cortex in one hemisphere with the contralateral SMA may be important in the recovery from SMA syndrome.
The authors present a novel multimodal approach to awake surgery for language-eloquent gliomas using preoperative nTMS and nTMS-based diffusion tensor imaging fiber tracking.
A controversial cost reduction strategy involves transitioning certain spinal procedures to an outpatient setting. Which surgeries might lend themselves to this approach...and what are the obstacles?
What factors contribute to the total costs for patients undergoing aneurysm treatment? This study compared the cost drivers of surgical clipping and endovascular management of intracranial aneurysms.
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