The annual Pool Symposium was held once again here at Columbia and the theme this year was pediatric neurosurgery. Dr. Neil A. Feldstein, Dr. Richard Anderson, and Dr. Saadi Ghatan from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center were all there and each presented in their areas of expertise. Dr. Feldstein spoke about...

Dr. Robert Goodman from the Epilepsy Center and Movement Disorders Center presented his research on epilepsy and brain stimulation at the Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) this year. The paper he co-authored, Treatment of Medically Intractable Mesial Temporal...

Dr. Guy M. McKhann was busy at this year's Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). He gave presentations in two Practical Courses and was part of a new Symposium...

Language mapping is often used to protect language functions during surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy or brain tumors. Language mapping is done during surgery while the patient is awake and interactive.  This is possible because the brain itself does not have pain receptors. The patient is...

"All I really wanted was to be able to drive," Mike Hickey reflects when asked why he went in for Epilepsy Surgery.  He had gotten his drivers license at 16 just like all his friends, "so I knew what it was like," says Mike.  All that was lost, however when an unexpected seizure caused him to...

Watch Dr.Saadi Ghatan, from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center in Action on Spanish TV as he performs epilepsy surgery on young Jennifer Flores.   This story was also recently covered on Fox News.

Dr. Michael Sisti from the Gamma Knife Center tells us a multi-million dollar up-grade is coming to his Center this Summer. They will be upgrading to a new state-of-the-art (5 million dollar plus) machine called the Gamma Knife Perfexion System...

Dr. Saadi Ghatan from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center spoke about epilepsy surgery live on Fox News last night.  The story, Surgery Stops Seizures was aired on their Ask Dr. Manny Show and featured a young girl, Jennifer Flores, who had up to 100 seizures a day until this amazing surgery.

Dr. Guy M. McKhann from the Epilepsy Center co-directed a course on Brain Mapping techniques at the recent American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) meeting.  The clinic focused on ways to map the eloquent cortex in order to remove tumors and treat epilepsy in the safest way...

According to Dr, Robert R. Goodman from the Epilepsy Center, there is a surgical cure for certain types of epilepsy that many patients and their neurologists don't know about.  This is particularly true, he says, in cases of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy . Epilepsy is a general term for a group of...