Jeffrey Raskin, MS MD FAANS FAAP

Congratulations to the whole group for this fairly complex study using electrophysiology to show the importance of brain development in children. This study highlights new information about the development of the prefrontal cortex in attention and memory.

The development of aperiodic neural activity in the human brain - PubMed The neurophysiological mechanisms supporting brain maturation are fundamental to attention and memory capacity across the lifespan. Human brain regions develop at different rates, with many regions developing into the third and fourth decades of life. Here, in this preregistered study (https://osf.i...

I was invited to participate in the JNS journal club discussing a recent publication on ventral dorsal rhizotomy with Drs. Burchiel, Cohen-Gadol, Sufianov, and Couldwell. You can check out the brief discussion with these luminary surgeons at the link below.

It was a highlight of my career to be invited to discuss this manuscript on the JNS platform by my previous Chairman, Dr. Kim Burchiel.

Neurosurgical Focus Volume 56 Issue 6: Spasticity and Other Movement Disorders (2024) "Volume 56 (2024): Issue 6 (Jun 2024): Spasticity and Other Movement Disorders" published on Jun 2024 by American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

Research is often impeded by heterogeneous diagnoses and therapies. Sometimes we do the same things but use different terms and jargon.

It was a privilege to contribute to this piece highlighting a need for a common language for intracranial monitoring with stereo EEG.

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Severe seizure disorders can start suddenly and be difficult to diagnose and treat. In some cases, affected children actually stay in the ICU intubated for weeks in a medically induced coma.

We present a case using sEEG and MRgLITT of the corpus callosum to lateralize seizure onset and also treat this child. It’s free online.

Using magnetic resonance-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy corpus callosotomy to lateralize a seizure focus for staged surgical approach New onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) is an etiologically heterogeneous condition that is associated with high morbidity and mortality. NORSE is often refractory to medical management prom