Last year Tom and Terri Hughes sat in a tidy hospital waiting room while their 13 year old son Troy underwent brain surgery.  Hours later, when Troy's surgeon, Dr. Neil A. Feldstein from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center emerged from the operating room and asked Tom and Terri into a small...

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. E. Sander Connolly's Cerebrovascular Laboratory employs experimental models to study the mechanisms of cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury, with a focus on clinical translation.  The NIH is funding the effort to analyze a recently identified a component of the complement cascade that mediates...

Also known as "water on the brain," hydrocephalus is one of the most frequently seen problems in a busy pediatric neurosurgical practice. The term "water on the brain" is actually more of a misnomer. In reality most cases of hydrocephalus represent a build up of spinal fluid inside the brain....

The Columbia Adult Hydrocephalus multidisciplinary team is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable in the world, evaluating and treating hundreds of patients annually. The adult brain usually produces about one half liter (500cc) of CSF daily in spaces within the brain called ventricles....

The Pediatric Neurosurgery Center specializes in the evaluation and treatment of children with a range of neurosurgical disorders, such as brain tumors, spasticity, movement disorders, intractable epilepsy, hydrocephalus, craniosynostosis, head injuries, and spina bifida, as well as other cranial...