Mayfield Brain & Spinal Column – Page 9 – Official Blog of Mayfield Brain & Spine

Mayfield Lecturer James Rutka, MD, PhD: New hope for treating brainstem tumor DIPG

June 4, 2016 Cliff Peale Brain Tumors, Research

James T. Rutka, MD, PhD, the R.S. McLaughlin Professor & Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurosurgery, on Friday gave a

Mayfield helps ThinkFirst celebrate 30 years of brain and spinal cord injury prevention

May 27, 2016 Cliff Peale Neurotrauma, Spinal Trauma

Bob Meister was a 21-year-old lineman for a utility company when he fell 40 feet from a pole and fractured his spine. The injury left him paralyzed from the waist down and

Mindfulness is hard, but the health benefits it delivers are real

February 5, 2016 Cliff Peale Integrative Medicine

Geraldine Wu, MD, posed the question on her PowerPoint slide to a room packed with listeners eager for a calmer, less stressful life. Mind full? Or Mindful? It was an ah-ha! moment.

Living well on the pain scale with spinal cord stimulators

February 3, 2016 Cliff Peale Chronic Pain, Spine Care

Spinal cord stimulators are unlikely to eliminate pain completely, but they can bring most individuals back into the happy fold of daily activities. That was the message delivered by Mayfield Clinic specialists

Mayfield Lecturer Dr. Kim Burchiel: Could genetics be origin of trigeminal neuralgia?

June 16, 2015 Cliff Peale Research

Kim Burchiel, MD, the John Raaf Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Oregon Health & Science University, is challenging the long-held belief that trigeminal neuralgia is caused by

Keller Lecturer Dr. Paolo Cappabianca charts a careful endoscopic route through the skull base

March 18, 2015 Cliff Peale Lectures, skull base

On a day that celebrated the collaboration between neurosurgeons and ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeons in the challenging arena of endoscopic skull base surgery, the Mayfield Education & Research Foundation and

Remembering Dr. Charles Kuntz: Reflections from Patients and Colleagues

February 26, 2015 Cliff Peale Spine Care

Tributes from Colleagues Charlie was an extremely talented surgeon and a valued member of our organization. He took great pride in leading and teaching. We all learned a great deal from him

New generation of devices offers hope to patients who suffer large-vessel strokes

January 14, 2015 Cliff Peale Brain Aneurysm, Research

Doctors who treat life-threatening strokes by threading catheters and devices up from the groin into the brain have long believed they could save more lives if only they could safely grab hold

Allergic to nickel? Be sure to let your doctor know!

August 12, 2014 Cliff Peale Brain Aneurysm, Research

Every year neurosurgeons treat nearly 17,000 brain aneurysms in the United States by placing a metal clip across the aneurysm’s neck. The metal clips, which are made of titanium or a metal

Mayfield Lecturer Dr. Andres Lozano looks to DBS for new solutions to depression, Alzheimer’s and epilepsy

May 31, 2014 Cliff Peale Lectures, Parkinson's Disease, Research

Andres Lozano, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and the 2014 Mayfield Lecturer, inspired an audience of faculty and neurosurgery residents Friday by illuminating the promise

Reflections from Patients and Colleagues

March 28, 2014 Cliff Peale Spine Care

In Memoriam: Dr. Paul L. Cohen, 1968-2014 Tributes from Colleagues Paul, You have been my teacher, my partner, my friend. You changed my life forever. You are a large part of the

Keller Lecturer Robert Spetzler illuminates neurosurgical paths less traveled by

March 20, 2014 Cliff Peale Lectures

In lectures that featured dozens of surgical videos, Robert Spetzler, MD, one of the world’s great surgeons, on Wednesday showed fellow surgeons and medical students how one gets from here to there