After a rigorous selection process, another round of Columbia University Medical Center Department of Neurosurgery doctors have been added to Castle Connolly's list of Top Doctors in the New York Metro area: Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey Bruce, Dr. Neil Feldstein, Dr. Robert Goodman, Dr. Steven...

The 2009 patient reviews have been totaled and our popular Dr. Neil A. Feldstein, Director of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center, has been selected as a Parent Favorite with the Patients' Choice Award for the 2nd year in a row! Every month, over 40,000 patients rate the effectiveness of their...

Surgeons* at the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center treat a number of children with a neurological birth defect called Chiari Malformation (CM).  Increasingly, they are finding that the most risky part of their surgical treatment, that is, opening the dura, may not always be necessary.  They...

At the Pediatric Neurosurgery Section meeting held in December,  Dr. Richard Anderson and Dr. Neil Feldstein from our Pediatric Neurosurgery Center co-authored a study that  compared surgical techniques for the treatment of Middle Fossa Arachnoid Cysts (MFAC).  They looked at patients after...

More than 250,000 leading doctors were asked to name the nation's best physicians in various specialties – those "to whom you would send members of your family." The annual survey, conducted by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. and published in America's Top Doctors, results include 9 of our...

 Dr. Richard C.E. Anderson from our Pediatric Neurosurgery Center has just earned membership into the prestigious American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons (ASPN).  This highly specialized group of neurosurgeons is dedicated to the advancement of their field through education and by,...

H. Houston Merritt, MD is widely considered the father of Neurology, by now however, it may be more accurate to say he is the Grandfather of Neurology.  In the 12th edition of Merritt's Neurology just published, the editors refer to the most recent bunch of contributors as his "intellectual...

This year at the annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) they added pediatrics to their Integrated Medical Learning (IML) program.  Dr. Neil Feldstein from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center was one of the presenters during a session on the surgical management of Chiari Malfo...

Sherman Alexie, winner of a National Book Award, has just come out with a new book of short stories called “War Dances” as reported by the New York Times, LA Times, and the Colbert Report. NY Times called his last book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, a “commercial breakthrough." In this book, Alexie created a character who like himself was born with a condition called Hydrocephalus.

Dr. Neil Feldstein went to New Orleans last week to share his expertise in two sessions on Chiari I malformations at the annual Congress of Neurological Surgeons meeting. The Chiari I malformation is a congenital disorder in which the lower part of the brain is displaced into the cervical spinal...