Editorial. Pediatric neurosurgery

Editorial Neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders

Daring must be an inborn trait. Egas Moniz, the neurolo-gist who extrapolated from the abolition of experimental neurosis in two chimpanzees to the invention of a procedure to ablate pathways of the frontal lobes in mentally ill human beings, had already developed angiog-raphy and spent time in jail for opposition to the Portugese monarchy 1. Such a man could write, in recording the results in ...

Editorial: Personalized Medicine and Neurosurgery

The Precision Medicine Initiative, which was instituted by President Barack Obama on January 20, 2015, highlighted the importance that advances in genomics and related "-omic " approaches have made to science and medicine, and it set the stage for their federally funded and mandated integration into the delivery of health care. Whether these advances comprise large-scale approaches, such as The...

Editorial Neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders

Defining excellence in pediatric neurosurgery.

Hyperglycemia and postoperative outcomes in pediatric neurosurgery

Eduardo Mekitarian Filho, Werther Brunow de Carvalho, Sérgio Cavalheiro, Nelson Kazunobu Horigoshi, Norberto Antonio Freddi, Gil Kruppa Vieira I Pediatrics and Sciences Applied to Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Pediatric Emergency Department, University Hospital of Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and Admissions Unit of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Pediatric Inte...