[Neurosurgeon training: current problems and modern approaches].

Analysis of historical and modern approaches to teaching neurosurgery by professional communities and public authorities in the United States, the European Union and the Russian Federation makes it possible to develop a modern training program regarding content and duration. High-tech and dynamically developing specialty has acquired several large sub-specializations over the past decades. Each direction requires a long-term training and a special program.

On the classification of cerebral tumors: A tribute to Leonid Smirnov.

The corresponding member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR Professor Leonid Iosifovich Smirnov (1889 - 1955) authored several dozen publications on neuropathology of infections, schizophrenia, cerebral injuries, and brain tumors. Based on his study of pathology of gunshot head injuries during World War II he suggested a doctrine of traumatic on traumatic brain disease. He was the author of the first Russian classification of cerebral tumors and had an impact on the development of neurooncology in the former USSR.

[Yu.M. Filatov (by the 90th anniversary)].

May 7, 2021 was the 90 anniversary of the birth of an outstanding Russian neurosurgeon, corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences, Laureate of the State Prize of USSR, Professor Yury Mikhailovich Filatov.

[Memories of Isaak Savelievich Babchin. By the 125th anniversary].

Among the founders of Russian neurosurgery Isaac Savelyevich Babchin was the longest-living - almost 94 years! Frail physically, he preserved his powerful intellect. How wise and critical was his concluding speech at his 90 anniversary at the Polenov Institute!

[Clinical and MRI predictors of coma duration, intensive care and outcome of traumatic brain injury].

Objective: This research is aimed to study the clinical and MRI predictors of coma duration, the intensity of critical care, and outcome of traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Material And Methods: The data from 309 patients with TBI of varying severity were included in the analysis, of whom 257 (86.7%) were treated in the intensive care unit (ICU), including 196 (63.