Brain tumour patients' use of social media for disease management: Current practices and implications for the future.

Objective: The role of social media in disease management is evolving. We aimed to define current use of social media for patients with primary brain tumours.

Methods: This was a single-centre cross-sectional prospective study; a questionnaire was administered on electronic tablets to patients in the Outpatient Department of Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Challenges in the Australasian neurosurgery training program: who should be trained and where should they train?

Objective: Neurosurgical training poses particular challenges in Australia and New Zealand, given the large landmass, small population, and widely separated, often small, neurosurgical units. Such factors have necessitated a move away from autonomous, single-institution-based training to the selection of trainees by a centralized binational process. The success of this system is based on rigorous standardized evaluation of candidates' academic achievements, anatomical knowledge, references, and interview performance.

Successful resolution of the ophthalmic manifestations of a falcotentorial meningioma through Cerebrospinal fluid diversion.

We report the case of a falcotentorial meningioma presenting only with binocular, horizontal diplopia in an otherwise healthy sixty-two-year old male. Review of the established literature highlights a lack of consensus regarding management of this extremely rare pineal region tumor. Complete surgical resection ultimately remains the ideal therapeutic option but surgical excision continues to bear serious risk of neurologic and ophthalmic morbidity, including hemianopia and cortical visual impairment.