By Ibrahim Hussain, MD
Neurosurgical Resident
I began my seven-year neurosurgical training program in 2013, so by March of 2020 I was just about done — then the pandemic changed everything. NewYork-Presbyterian is the top-rated hospital in the city and one of the best in the country, and the...
By Amanda Sacks-Zimmerman, PhD, and Jessica Spat-Lemus, PhD
In last week’s blog post (Information Overload), our chairman, Dr. Philip E. Stieg, wrote about how difficult it is to process the amount of information coming at us every day right now. The barrage of information, combined with high levels of...
By Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine
Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professor of Neurological Surgery
The human brain is not wired for this. Our twenty-first century lives had already taken us far away from what our brains evolved to do – but now, in the middle of a pandemic, we are in over our heads.
By Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD, and Mark Souweidane, MD
The pandemic came very close to home to us today when we learned that the novel coronavirus had claimed the life of Dr. James Goodrich, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the...
By Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine
Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professor of Neurological Surgery
These are unprecedented times, and we are facing unimaginable challenges. Those on the front lines of the pandemic – the health care heroes who are saving lives every day, and losing that fight for far too many patients – are enduring unthinkable...
By Amanda Sacks-Zimmerman, PhD, and Jessica Spat-Lemus, PhD
Cognitive remediation after any kind of brain injury — whether from trauma, stroke, surgery, or other event — has been shown to be valuable in helping patients regain function.
By Dr. Beverly Cheserem, BM (hons), FRCS Neurosurgery
Global Neurosurgery Fellow, Tanzania
I came across the Weill Cornell Medicine Global Health Neurosurgery Fellowship by pure chance one evening last year in London, when I typed “global neurosurgery” into a search engine. I emailed Dr. Härtl immediately, attaching my CV and asking about...
By Philip E. Stieg, Ph.D., M.D.
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
When former president Jimmy Carter was hospitalized this week to treat pressure on his brain from bleeding, it brought to light a common condition that holds a special danger for the elderly. It also brings up the topic of minimally invasive...
By Philip E. Stieg
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
The statistics on Americans with dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease, are extremely sobering: The CDC has reported that the overall rate of deaths from dementia has more than doubled in less than two decades, especially among the elderly. In...
By Philip E. Stieg, Ph.D., M.D.
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
One of the most important things we’ve learned about the brain recently is that there is not necessarily a great deal of difference between disorders that are clearly organic and those we’ve thought of as psychological illnesses. Brain disorders may...
