Mark Souweidane, MD
There are more findings to report from his landmark clinical trial for DIPG
Dr. Hongtao Ma of the Weill Cornell Epilepsy Laboratory
The paper describes a novel wave of glial calcium activity triggered by seizures and examines its role and significance.
Mark M. Souweidane, MD and CBTP researcher Uday Maachani, PhD
Developing a reliable means of measuring the volume of a DIPG tumor is a significant advance that will greatly aid in the assessment of potential new treatments.
Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield and Dr. Prajwal Rajappa of Weill Cornell Medicine
Researchers found how it may be possible to stop the progression of a low-grade, survivable glioma into a high-grade, fatal malignancy.
Pediatric Endonasal Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery: A Case-Based Manual
The authors have become leaders in the field, extending availability of this minimally invasive procedure to pediatric patients.

A new paper, “Resolution of Pulsatile Tinnitus after Venous Sinus Stenting in Patients with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension,” shows that an innovative stenting procedure can alleviate the debilitating whooshing sounds experienced by patients with pulsatile tinnitus. The stenting procedure,...

Ten-Step MIS Lumbar Decompression and Dural Repair through Tubular Retractors
“Ten-Step MIS Lumbar Decompression and Dural Repair through Tubular Retractors” documents the detailed steps of four MIS procedures with a review of clinical outcomes in 331 patients.
Journal of Neurosurgery, March 2016

A new publication co-authored by Dr. Theodore Schwartz is featured on the cover of the March 2016 issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery. The paper, “Endoscope-assisted endonasal versus supraorbital keyhole resection of olfactory groove meningiomas: comparison and combination of 2 minimally invasive approaches,” was written by Dr. Schwartz along with Dr. Matei Banu, Dr. Alpesh Mehta, Dr. Malte Ottenhausen, Dr. Justin F. Fraser, Dr. Oszkar Szentirmai, Dr. Vijay K. Anand, Dr. Apostolos...

Dr. Athos Patsalides, a member of the Standards and Guidelines Committee of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery, has co-authored a paper establishing a new standard of care for patients suffering from acute ischemic stroke with a blockage in a major blood vessel.

The committee, which had been charged with evaluating and summarizing the latest research into endovascular treatments for stroke, looked at the increasingly compelling evidence that embolectomy (the removal of the...

JNS March 2015
The paper, "A 3D Endoscopic Transtubular Transcallosal Approach to the Third Ventricle," is featured in the March 2015 issue