Perioperative outcomes and complications associated with allogeneic duraplasty for the management of Chiari malformations Type I in 48 pediatric patients.

Object: The authors debate the optimal management for Chiari malformation Type I (CM-I) while sharing their experience with posterior fossa decompression and duraplasty (PFDD).

Methods: The charts of 48 consecutive pediatric patients surgically treated for CM-I were retrospectively reviewed.

Results: Patients ranged in age from 2 to 17 years with an average age of 9.

A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of factors influencing motor function after surgery for gliomas in the rolandic region.

Background: Pre- and postoperative fMRI was performed in patients with rolandic gliomas to evaluate factors influencing motor function after surgery.

Methods: The study population consisted of 9 right-handed patients (mean age, 43.3 years; range, 25-67, 2 female/7 male) affected by high-grade gliomas growing within or adjacent to the rolandic cortex.

The relationship of cognitive retraining to neurological patients' driving status: the role of process variables and compensation training.

Primary Objective: To explore the relationship of cognitive retraining performance to discharge driving status.

Methods And Procedures: One hundred and three brain-injured patients from a holistic milieu-oriented work/school re-entry programme.

Experimental Interventions: Initial, last, mean, and best cognitive retraining scores; Behavioural Checklist ratings; Working Alliance (WA) scores.

A family experiential model of recovery after brain injury.

The Family Experiential Model (FEM) described in this article is a therapeutic "navigation tool" for families traversing the recovery process with their loved one after brain injury. Its conception furnishes a personal voice and the pragmatic "stoplight model" depicts how the family's myriad of powerful emotions affects the chosen path in the rehabilitation and recovery process. As an example of mentalizing, the FEM is a healing tool that instills mutual insight and empathy among the family, psychotherapist, and patient.

The fate of medical knowledge and the neurosciences during the time of Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Empire.

In 25 years, the Mongolian army of Genghis Khan conquered more of the known world than the Roman Empire accomplished in 400 years of conquest. The recent revised view is that Genghis Khan and his descendants brought about "pax Mongolica" by securing trade routes across Eurasia. After the initial shock of destruction by an unknown barbaric tribe, almost every country conquered by the Mongols was transformed by a rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and advances in civilization.

The relationship of cognitive retraining to neurological patients' work and school status.

Primary Objective: To explore the relationship of cognitive retraining performance to discharge productivity status.

Methods And Procedures: One hundred and one brain-injured patients from a holistic milieu-oriented work/school re-entry programme.

Experimental Interventions: Initial, last, mean and best cognitive retraining scores; cognitive retraining behavioural checklist ratings; and working alliance scores.

Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow: pathologist, physician, anthropologist, and politician. Implications of his work for the understanding of cerebrovascular pathology and stroke.

The history of apoplexy and descriptions of stroke symptoms date back to ancient times. It was not until the mid-nineteenth century, however, that the contributions of Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, including his descriptions of the phenomena he called "embolism" and "thrombosis" as well as the origins of ischemia, changed the understanding of stroke. He suggested three main factors that conduce to venous thrombosis, which are now known as the Virchow triad.