On Tuesday night, Dr. D'Ambrosio, of the Brain Tumor Center, Gamma Knife Center, and Spine Center, organized an event at AANS for the young members in the community.  It included good food and drink; the guest speaker Dr. Henry Brem, Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins...

Just over one hundred years ago the very first surgery was performed here at Columbia University Medical Center's Department of Neurosurgery.  The surgeon was Dr. Charles Elsberg and he performed the removal of an intramedullary spinal cord tumor. His two step method was pioneering at the time...

Dr. Jeffrey N. Bruce from the Brain Tumor Center will be giving a lecture entitled Brain Tumors: Current Treatments and Hope for the Future through Cancer Care's CONNECT® EDUCATION WORKSHOP program. The lecture is free and anyone who registers can listen to it over a telephone line or as...

Despite the lack of evidence so far, the suggestion that cell phone use is in some way linked to the development of brain tumors still abounds, prompting study after study. Newly published research out of Scandinavia, where cell phone use is particularly high, shows that there is still no link....

The acoustic (eighth cranial) nerve includes branches that mediate the sense of balance and head position (the vestibular nerve), as well as hearing (the cochlear nerve). Acoustic neuromas are benign tumors that arise from the vestibular portion of the acoustic nerve. Surrounding each nerve fiber...