Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons

Farhana Akter is an Academic Neurosurgery Fellow at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Nigel Emptage is Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology, Department Of Pharmacology at the University Of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Florian Engert is Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Mitchel S. Berger is Professor of Neurosurgery, Department Of Neurosurgery and Director of the Brain Tumor Center at University Of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA.

Section 1. Basic and computational neuroscience: 1. Neuroanatomy Farhana Akter, Charles Reilly, Christophe Dupre, and Shifa Hossain; 2. Cerebral autoregulation Xingping Qin, Parisa Nikrouz and Farhana Akter; 3. Neuroimmune interactions Allison Chang; 4. Anatomy and physiology of the neuron Oluwatobi Ariyo and Farhana Akter; 5. Synaptic transmission Katrina Hon and Nigel Emptage; 6. Sensory pathways Rachel Chau, Megan Chau and Farhana Akter; 7. Somatosensory and somatic motor systems Maria Kaltchenko and Farhana Akter; 8. Neuron models Kumaresh Krishnan; 9. An introduction to artificial intelligence and machine learning Shun Yao, Ye Wu and Farhana Akter; 10. Artificial intelligence in neuroscience Will Xiao, Mengmi Zhang and Gabriel Kreiman; 11. Probability and statistics Zachary T. Miller; Section 2. Clinical neurosurgical diseases; 12. Glioma David M. Ashley and Justin T. Low; 13. Brain metastases: molecules to medicine Ethan S. Srinivasan, Vadim Tsvankin, Eric W. Sankey, Matthew M. Grabowski, Pakawat Chongsathidkiet and Peter E. Fecci; 14. Benign adult brain tumors and pediatric brain tumors Shun Yao, Umar Raza and Farhana Akter; 15. Biomechanics of the spine Gaetano De Biase and Kingsley Abode-Iyamah; 16. Degenerative cervical myelopathy Timothy J. Florence, Joel S. Beckett and Langston T. Holly; 17. Spondylolisthesis Yike Jin, Ann Liu, Ravi Medikonda and Timothy F. Witham; 18. Radiculopathy Yingda Li and Michael Y Wang; 19. Spinal tumors Ziev B. Moses, Matthew Trawczynski and John E O'Toole; 20. Acute spinal cord injury and spinal trauma Dominique M. O. Higgins, Pavan S. Upadhyayula, Michael Argenziano and Paul McCormick; 21. Traumatic brain injury Kristin A. Keith and Jason H. Huang; 22. Vascular neurosurgery Karol P. Budohoski and Adib A. Abla; 23. Pediatric vascular malformations Alaa Montaser and Edward R. Smith; 24. Craniofacial neurosurgery John T. Smetona and John A. Persing; 25. Hydrocephalus Benjamin C. Reeves, Jason K. Karimy, Phan Q. Duy and Kristopher T. Kahle; 26. Peripheral nerve injury response mechanisms Andrew S. Jack and Line Jacques; 27. Clinical peripheral nerve injury models Andrew S. Jack, Charlotte J. Huie and Line Jacques; 28. The neuroscience of functional neurosurgery Joseph S. Bell, TJ Florence, Maya Harary, Maxwell D. Melin, Hiro Sparks and Nader Pouratian; 29. Neuroradiology: focused ultrasound in neurosurgery Massimiliano Del Bene, Roberto Eleopra, Francesco Prada and Francesco DiMeco; 30. Magnetic resonance imaging in neurosurgery David J. Segar, Jasmine A. Thum, Dhiego Bastos and Alexandra J. Golby; 31. Brain mapping Anthony T. Lee, Cecilia Dalle Ore and Shawn L. Hervey-Jumper.