Neurosurgeon Kevin J. Tracey talks to Nature about controlling inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis by stimulating the vagus nerve.

Jacob Chandy, who passed away in 2007 at the age of 97, was born into a deeply religious Christian family in Kerala, South India. After obtaining his medical education at the Madras Medical College, Madras, he serendipitously came to work with Dr Paul Harrison, a renowned medical missionary, in the Gulf state of Bahrain. Harrison urged Chandy to pursue training in the fledgling specialty of neu...

In this paper we present the minedICE computer architecture and network comprised of neurological instruments and artificial intelligence (AI) agents. It’s called minedICE because data that is “mined” via IntraCortical Electroencephalography (ICE) located deep inside the human brain procures (mined) knowledge to a Decision Support System (DSS) that is read by a neurosurgeon located either at th...

Unidade de Neurocirurgia Endovascular do Serviço de Neurocirurgia do Hospital de Base de São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil: MD, Neurosurgeon, fellow of Unit of Endovascular Neurosurgery at Hospital de Base de São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil; MD, Medical student at Faculdade de Medicina de Marília, SP, Brazil; MD, Neurosurgeon at Hospital de Base de São José do Rio Preto...

BACKGROUND Restriction of the direct admission of all head-injured patients to the neurosurgical unit remains common practice in many parts of the world. This study was conducted to assess if the initial neurological examination of patients with a head trauma and their management are adequately performed before the referrals and also to determine whether strict use of guidelines for the managem...

Ask almost any neurosurgeon in the developed world what his or her main concern is. It is the effect of socioeconomics and politics on his life, not science or the latest way to treat an aneurysm or lumbar disc. Why? Because there are too many neurosurgeons competing with each other, the amount they are being paid for their work is decreasing, and their incomes are falling after years of study ...