Neurosurgery & Trauma
News
Memory fares better with laser ablation for epilepsy than with surgery
Major finding: After undergoing stereotactic laser ablation, 1 in 7 patients had significant drop in one of two memory tasks, compared with 9 of...
News
TBI survivors see threefold risk of early death
Major finding: TBI patients saw higher mortality before age 56 years, compared with controls, even after adjustment for socioeconomic confounders...
News
NIH announces major funding support for concussion, TBI research
News
Pediatric epilepsy surgery improved mood, behavior in some patients
Major finding: Scores on the Children’s Depression Inventory and the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale demonstrated clinically significant...
News
DTI detects long-term axonal injury in veterans with TBI
Major finding: Veterans had significantly higher average diffusion tensor imaging–derived fractional anisotropy values than did healthy controls...
News
Trauma surgeons placed intracranial pressure monitors safely
Major finding: Complications developed with 3% of monitors placed by trauma surgeons and 0.8% placed by neurosurgeons.Data source: Retrospective...
Conference Coverage
No differences are seen in concussion risk, severity, by helmet brand
Major finding: Sport-related concussion incidence rates were 9.5, 8.1, and 6.7 for the Riddell, Schutt, and Xenith helmets, respectively.
News
Nerve growth factor gene therapy delivered safely in Alzheimer’s patients
Major finding: At 24 months, human nerve growth factor gene therapy via bilateral stereotactic injection into the nucleus basalis of Meynert was...
News
Small study: TBI leads to rapid deposition of brain amyloid
Major finding: Amyloid was located with significantly greater concentration in the cortical gray matter and striatum of TBI patients, compared...
Conference Coverage
Bicycle helmet use remains low, varies by ethnicity and socioeconomic status
Major finding: Only 11.3% of children injured in bicycle accidents were wearing a helmet (35.2%, 7.0%, 6.0%, and 4.2% of white, Asian, black, and...
News
Clinical report: Students may need school break after concussion
Major finding: Patients appear physically normal soon after sustaining a concussion, and the physician is in an excellent position to educate...