Elective neurosurgery has quietly crossed a threshold: advances in minimally invasive techniques, anesthesia, and perioperative care have made a set of historically “inpatient” spine and neurovascular ...

Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have demonstrated that a neurosurgical procedure used to research and measure dopamine and serotonin in the human brain is safe. Their findings ...

Access to potentially life-saving neurosurgical care remains very uneven worldwide, with potentially life-threatening ...

Becker’s Healthcare named the following organizations to the 2017 edition of its list “100 hospitals and health systems with great neurosurgery and spine programs.” The organizations featured on this ...

Neurosurgery is following a familiar path: just as orthopedics and cardiology moved key procedures to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), spine and neurovascular surgeons now have the technology and ...

Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be severe and disabling. Although some individuals with this disorder respond to psychotherapy and/or pharmacotherapy, many with chronic, ...

What does it take to bring life-changing medical robotic devices to reality? This is a question Dr. Gregory Fischer, founder and CEO of AiM Medical Robotics, explored in his keynote “From Concept to ...

Various reasons exist for the frequent failure of neurosurgical procedures to control pain. Three main classes of factors are involved in this failure-those relating to the surgeon and the surgery, ...