Drs. Hani Malone and Michael Kaiser are currently conducting clinical research to determine the optimal treatment strategies for patients presenting with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM), a degenerative process of the neck that can lead to neurological deficits and impaired quality of life...

Dr. Jeffrey Bruce from the Brain Tumor Center was busy at this month's 79th annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS). "I was involved in several symposia which allowed us to present some of the latest work we are doing at Columbia to advance the field," Says...

Imagine a war zone where the entire army has shown up to fight the enemy but for some reason won't shoot. For this war to be won, whatever is keeping the soldiers from fighting needs to be found and stopped. This is the situation researchers have recently discovered in their fight against malignant gliomas...

Dr. Robert Solomon has been treating patients with brain aneurysms for a very long time and he has seen it all.  Some of the most challenging to treat, he says, are the amorphous or "giant" aneurysms of the basilar artery.  Researchers* at the Cerebrovascular Center recently pulled together...

Two procedures used in the treatment of  Carotid Artery Disease, stenting and endarterectomy have been hotly debated amongst surgeons for years.  Now, a huge new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has added to the fodder and Chair of our department, Dr.Robert A. Solomon...

Second-year medical student Teresa Wojtasiewicz presented her paper, Neural Proliferation of Bone Marrow- Derived Cells in a Murine Model of Intracerebral Hemorrhage at AANS, which was a result of the AANS Medical Student Summer Research Fellowship she was awarded.  The paper is co-authored by...

Like a lot of smart people, neurosurgeons know that it is important to keep learning. The Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Meeting is a week-long event where neurosurgeons from around the world get together to teach and learn from each other. Many of the doctors from the different Centers...

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...