One of the few comprehensive, interdisciplinary centers in the United States devoted to diagnosis and treatment of concussion, NYU Langone’s Concussion Center has treated over 1,000 patients since it was established in the spring of 2013. The center maintains a concussionpatient registry, and is currently investigating the use of the King-Devick Test® for eye movement, and other quickly admi…
Cranial neurosurgery is a term covering a vastrange of surgical procedures carried out on the brain or on nerves located in the skull. It includes potentially life-saving surgery to stop bleeding in the brain and remove tumours, as well as procedures to address debilitating pain caused by nerve damage. Cranial neurosurgeons also play a pivotalrole in monitoring patients who have suffered a head…
For years, surgeons have been developing surgi-cal approaches attempting to achieve maximal surgical exposure with minimal brain retraction, advantages found within the frontotemporal or pterional approach, first described by Yasargil, four decades ago . Compared to its prede-cessors, this approach allowed for wider fronto-basal exposure, secondary to more sig…