Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons

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.